The ill effects of negative politics are experienced by most of us in our daily work life. The negative politics saps our creativity and entails a heavy price in psychological terms. Positive politics is the ability to influence the behavior of others for the purpose of achieving the goals of individuals as well as organizational goals.I am completely fed up with the dirty way people behave in my office. All I am interested is to do the job for which my organization pays my salary. I would prefer to stay away from the murky politics that goes around in my office.

It is so demotivating and I am exasperated with the roadblocks I face day in and day out. People are just not bothered about the damage they are inflicting to the organization." Chances are that you might have heard such reactions from people working in various organizations. Chances are that such people over a period of time seriously look for alternative jobs and quit their present organization at the earliest opportunity.

Negative politics in organizations are waste of people's energy. Office politics affect the productivity of the employees and the health of an organization. Most of us experience the ill effects of negative politics at some stage of our working lives. One does not have to work in a formal organization to be familiar with office politics. Anyone who has ever had any job, casual, contractual or permanent employment in any workplace would understand the dynamics of office politics. The strong bias of the boss for stereotyping, the scheming personal secretary who manipulates the boss at his/her will, the colleague who is smarting with the green eyed monster called jealousy at the promotion you have obtained on meritare all too familiar to us. They are all the ingredients of what normally is described as negative office politics.