Nurse leaders experience workplace politics every day.
Advice can be surprisingly hard to find.
Perhaps those who suffer as a result of organizational politics would rather forget, and those who benefit protect their strategies. To find strength, we need only to look at our years of collective experience in the changing climate of workplace politics. Stuck in the static sixties Peter Blau and W. Richard Scott captured the essence of politics in formal organizations way back in the early 1960s. At that time, organizational politics centered on seniority, informal rank, and group orientation. More senior managers had more power and a greater stake in the organization's hierarchical politics.