Developing your political skills. Be more effective and successful.
Organizational political skills have been generally neglected in management literature. This is unfortunate because managers who lack the requisite political skills inevitably run into difficulties on the job that reasoning and experience alone won't solve. Because politics are endemic to hospital life, laboratory managers must establish routines to deal with them. This article briefly reviews the origin of organizational political behavior and describes the political style and skills a manager needs to be effective.
D006270:Health Facility Administrators; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011057:Politics; D011340:Problem Solving; D011361:Professional Competence; D014481:United States