Cloudera knows employee well-being is a precursor of productivity. Therefore, when energy is spent on maneuvering negative politics, it's at the expense of employee mental health and detracts from the great work employees want to deliver.
It is an important responsibility for leaders to reduce and obviously eradicate negative workplace politics. When they do that, employees become more engaged, collaborative, participate and contribute more ideas.
Yet, can an organization eradicate workplace politics completely?
Defined by the Harvard Business Review as “a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests”, politics at the workplace seems inevitable.
Read the full article from Cloudera on inclusive leadership and minimizing the negative impact of workplace politics.
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