office politics

noun

Definitions

  1. actions and behavior that are employed to gain or protect status or resources within an…

    actions and behavior that are employed to gain or protect status or resources within an organization

    • As a practical matter, however, you have no more chance of escaping office politics than of inheriting Fort Knox.
    • If we narrow our focus to "bad" office politics, the kind that subverts an organization or undermines the work of people, the self-promoting plotting that others do, then yes, there are things that can be done.

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