Individual Political Behavior in Organizational Relationship

This paper attempts to explain individual‟s political behavior in organizations. It also suggests that as organization theory neglects individual‟s political behavior within organizations, so, individual political behavior in organizational context is explored using three key dimensions of political behaviors: internal-external dimension , vertical-lateral dimension and legitimate-illegitimate dimension. A pattern based on these dimensions is proposed thus concluding that individual‟s practice politicking for a variety of reasons e.g. power, resources, knowledge, authority and securing their positions.

کلیدواژه ها:

Individual political behavior ، Organizational theory ، internal-external dimension ، vertical-lateral dimension ، legitimate-illegitimate dimension