Power and Politicking and the Ethical Dilemmas in Politicking
We discuss ethical considerations in organizational politics in one of your chapters this week. Reflect on what you learned about power and politicking, and discuss ethical dilemmas that exist in politicking. What ethical issues have you seen at your organization as a result of power, influence, and politics?
Begin your discussion by reading your assigned chapter ( Chapter 15-18) and conducting additional research on power and politicking, as well as ethical dilemmas that exist in politicking. Share what you learned by synthesizing your research into your own words and citing your sources. At the minimum, you should cite your textbook and one additional scholarly source.
Next, offer a personal connection by identifying ethical issues that you have seen at your organization as a result of power, influence, and politics. Develop your examples and supporting evidence thoroughly.
Complete your discussion by exploring how you might use the knowledge from this topic in your future professional and personal communication.
Power and Politicking
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Power and politicking come together since the former fuels the latter. Power is the capacity of an individual to influence other people to allow things to be of their control, making others follow the commands or ideologies of the one who holds power. As a result, the individual with power conjures organizational politics or politicking because that person utilizes power to control the resources (Janasz et al., 2019, pp. 370-371). The connection between these two concepts is evident in organizations. Thus, in this paper, we shall reflect on the real-life situations where power and politics were demonstrated.
Often, the organization’s leader contains the power to influence the members, making a positive or negative impact in the organizational culture, mission, and vision, and creating a set of principles and values followed by all the organization members. However, there is frequently a gray area between right and wrong that is neither designated as ethical or unethical. When placed in this situation where the leader needs to decide, their power becomes evident, and their decisions are supported by many (Grigoropoulos, 2019).
Based on experience, the leader’s words have immense authority over th...