Chapter 7 Mastering Organizational Politics

120 Rex C. Mitchell, Ph.D., professor at the Department: Rex C. Mitchell, Introduction to Organizational Politics, csun.edu, ND, and Andrew Dubrin, Leadership, 3rd ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001).

122 “Politics are an organizational fact of life”: Gill Corkindale, “Reinventing Office Politics,” Harvard Business Review blog, October 3, 2007.

123, 124 … organizational politics is “a process through which people”; So what’s an overly political organization to do: Ben Dattner, and Allison Dunn, “The Causes and Consequences of Organizational Politics,” Dattnerconsulting.com, 2002.

124 Evidence suggests that gossip has a potency: “Gossip in the Workplace: A Weapon or Gift?” ScienceDaily.com, October 30, 2009; Tim Hallett, Brent Harger, and Donna Eder, “Gossip at Work: Unsanctioned Evaluative Talk in Formal School Meetings,”