Research Paper on:
Organizational Politics in Projects

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ahead and the way it is being undertaken, as a result the role of a project manager may be one that is political and deal with issues such as public  relations as well as the actual management of the project. The issue of politics is not limited to the external environment, just as there are external pressures, there will also  be internal policies, which may reflect the external issues, but may be complicated with internal organizational issues, resulting in organizational politics being a potentially important element if project management.  In order to assess this the concept or organizational politics and the way it may manifest as well as sources of power and  influence need to be considered to assess the way in which they may manifest and influence projects. If a project manager is to deliver a project successfully, this means that  the project will be ion time, in budget and to the correct specifications (Kerzner, 2009). Therefore, all issues that may impact on that delivery, including those of organizational politics need  to be considered. Like many other concepts within organizational studies, there is no singular definition of organizational politics. The concept of politics  is present in all aspects of everyday life, Aristotle argued that the nature of man was political, and as such it would be present in every type of social interaction,  and influence decision-making (Collinson, 2006). Molm (1997) notes that organizations are a type of social entity, and as such there are different influences including personal conflicts, a struggle for resources  as well as the entity being subject to the influence of individuals or groups with diverse goals and organizational politics is the way in which these different influences manifest and