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Archive for August, 2012

The Role & Rewards of an Office Weasel



By Office-Politics Guest Adviser: Andrew Hennigan Why the Office Weasel Plays a Key Role in Hierarchical Organizations People from the few societies that are not hierarchical -- Netherlands and Scandinavia mainly -- often have difficulty grasping how strongly hierarchical societies can function. When I explain this point in culture workshops they usually ask ...

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Nice Perfume. Must you bathe in it?



Dear Office-Politics, Nice Perfume, must you bathe in it? That is what I want to say to her but I won't. I have this co-worker. She is a very nice woman. In fact, she is the one who trained me. She got a promotion in the same office and I took her ...

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Can you fight the bully and win? Read how one worker used a daily diary to fight the bully.



The featured comment below wins a copy of the award-winning ethics game book, Dear Office-Politics by Franke James. "All I can say is that I was harrassed and bullied in the workplace by the Department Head and my supervisor -- who decided between them, they wanted me out. You have to ...

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Backstabbed! A Co-worker Ripped Off My Idea! Office-Politics responds…



Tell us what you think for a chance to win the Dear Office-Politics game book Dear Office-Politics, I have had first hand experience with a backstabber. I just completed a report on a new idea I had and I wanted another opinion on it before I presented it to my boss. I ...

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Feeling Paranoid About Office Politics?



  Does being paranoid about office politics make you a target? Tell us what you think for a chance to win the Dear Office-Politics game book Uh oh! Have you intuitively felt that complaining that other people didn't like you would only attract more attacks? Now a study by the UBC Sauder School ...

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