Politics at Workplace: Evil or Beneficial?

Avoiding politics at workplace
Although it is practically impossible to make your workplace free from the politics, but the organisation and the employees can follow certain ethics for themselves to make their workplace healthier:

• Avoid distorting or manipulating the truth and the facts.
• Be yourself. Don’t have different faces to suit different people and different situations.
• Be fair in your dealings. Take decisions based on other’s performance and not on the basis of your relations with them.
• Be flexible, approachable and accessible to others. Rigidity can isolate you.
• Communicate – Lack of proper communication is the root cause of most of the problems. Therefore, ensure a timely and open communication system. Hiding information, rumors or distorted information can aggravate the situation and problem. Proper communication will also help to combat the effect of gossip.
• Have a broader perspective. Don’t work to satisfy your ego every time. Give a fair chance to everyone to put forward their thoughts.
• Last but not the least; be clear in your conscious. Don’t compromise on your morals and ethics and, don’t hesitate to apologize if you realize that you are wrong.