Diversity, most of the time, lead to the politics in the organization and have been regarded as such for decades by organizational scientists and practitioners alike. The competencies and the strategies needed to pursue in such environment far less is known in such political environment to be successful.
General believe regarding the career success is that it only depends on the hard work and intelligence of an individual but political skills are also essential for social astuteness and positioning. This article demonstrates the underlying features of political skills that it enhance the people analytical skill to analyze the opportunities and to capitalize on it.
As a metaphor, using the game of chess, we determines that how the individual politically skilled capitalize their competency towards the attainment of goals and how they find the ways in an intense political environment. Furthermore, we facilitate the employees that how to play the organizational politics games to obtain success in the organization.
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