Hi Nic,
I am delighted to hear of your interest in organizational politics research as it is a favorite of mine and central to my research. Looks like you have received some good feedback so far from folks including Tim Munyon, who is a great source of information and help in this area. I would like to add a few more to the list that I hope will be helpful to you. In addition to following some of the central scholars of this area of inquiry including Ferris, Kacmar, Perrewé, Witt, Treadway, and Hochwarter, Eran Vigoda-Gadot has a few really good books out that are very helpful in getting to know the landscape and history of the politics literature.
This one first:
Vigoda, E. (2003). Developments in Organizational Politics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Then:
Vigoda-Gadot, E. and Drory, A. (2006) Handbook of Organizational Politics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
You might also look at these seminal works in addition to those listed in earlier emails:
Mintzberg, H. (1983), Power in and Around Organizations, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Mintzberg, H. (1985), 'The organization as political arena', Journal of Management Studies, 22, 133-54.
Pfeffer, J. (1981), Power in Organizations, Marshfield, MA: Pitman Publishing.
Bacharach, S.B. and Lawler, E.J. (1980), Power and Politics in Organizations, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Gandz, J., and Murray, V. V. (1980) 'The experience of workplace politics', Academy of Management Journal, 23, 237-51.
Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance to you. I think you will find that many of the people in the "organizational politics" research
neck of the woods are very welcoming, kind, and helpful.
Best of luck,
Hunter
Hunter L. Harris MBA, MILR
PhD Program, Management - Org. Studies
Owen Graduate School of Management
Vanderbilt University
ph: 615-430-7287
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Nic,
You might also review the following book chapter. Ferris and colleagues
(2002) reviewed most of the empirical politics literature up to that point:
Ferris, G.R., Adams, G., Kolodinsky, R.W., Hochwarter, W.A., & Ammeter, A.P.
2002. Perceptions of organizational politics: Theory and research
directions. In F.Yammarino & F. Dansereau (Eds.), Research in multi-level
issues, Volume 1: The many faces of multi-level issues: 179-254. Oxford, UK:
JAI Press/Elsevier Science.
Let me know if you have questions or need additional information. Hunter
Harris (Vanderbilt U) and I are beginning a research center in
organizational politics this year.
Best of luck,
Tim Munyon
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL 32306
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Date: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:09 pm
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> Most definitions of OP or PB include "promotion of self-interest" and
> "attempts to influence the distribution of outcomes" therefore it is
> natural for employees to attribute a negative connotation to the word
> "politics" as they more than likely focus on the motives of the agent.
>
>
>
> Mayes & Allen's (1977) framework distinguishes between functional and
> dysfunctional political behavior based on whether the means and ends
> are organizationally sanctioned. So if what you mean by "the interests
> of the formal organization" is "ends" then behavior would be labeled
> functional,even though the means are not sanctioned by the
> organization. However, again, the perceptions make up the reality.
> Ferris & Kacmar's work is notable in perceived politics.
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> Ferris, G. R., Harrell-Cook, G., & Dulebohn, J. H. 2000.
> Organizationalpolitics: The nature of the relationship between
> politics perceptions and political behavior. In D. G. Bachrach, & E.
> J. Lawler (Eds.), Research in the Sociology of Organizations:
> Organizational Politics: JAI Press Inc.
> Ferris, G. R., Russ, G. S., & Fandt, P. M. 1989. Politics in
> organizations.In R. A. Giacalone, & P. Rosenfeld (Eds.), Impression
> Management in the
> Organization: 143-170. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
>
> Kacmar, K. M., & Ferris, G. R. 1991. Perceptions of organizational
> politicsscale (POPS): development and construct validation.
> Educational and
> Psychological Measurement, 51: 193-205.
>
> Ferris, G. R., & Kacmar, K. M. 1992. Perceptions of organizational
> politics.Journal of Management, 18(1): 93-116.
>
> Kacmar, K. M., & Carlson, D. S. 1997. Further validation of the
> perceptionsof politics scale (POPS): A multiple sample investigation.
> Journal of Management, 23(5): 627-658.
>
> H. Ulas Ograk
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> Subject: Office Politics
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>
> I'm searching for articles that specifically discuss the issue of
> "officepolitics" and "political behaviors". I use the notion of
> "office politics"
> in the workplace as the informal governance in an organization.
> Employees I
> talk to commonly use the notion politics as a negative phenomenon when
> the informal operations run counter to the interests of the formal
> organization.However, I'm having a difficult time locating articles to
> ground my work other than using "politics" as a colloquial notion.
>
> Any advice in pointing me in the right direction is greatly
> appreciated
>
>
> Cheers!
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> /Nic
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