The Politics of Office Management

Office management has been portrayed in every imaginable way on television and in the movies, from the situational mix of drama and comedy on “Ally McBeal” to the overtly preposterous and over the top hijinks depicted on NBC’s “The Office”. Of course, the mundane reputation of typical office life is ripe for satire, as evidence by the sheer number of entertainment mediums in which it often serves as the basis for the humor to follow. In real life, offices aren’t any more void of humor, drama or even danger than any other working environment, though danger can manifest itself in the most peculiar of ways. Most managers are familiar with what’s commonly referred to as “office politics”. A decidedly negative term, in it’s simplest form office politic View the rest of this article