I am Autistic and a paper that I am working on involves a “political mindset” to solve a problem. I am seeing ways to survive office politics but I am not sure ultimately what it is. Please help.
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In actuality, offices aren’t pure meritocracies. There are certain departments that get more favorable treatment, there are people who get preferential treatment because of who they’re friends with or who they are related to, and such. For example, a company may favor salesmen who bring in revenue vs. departments like IT or HR that don’t drive revenue. Of if the CEO came out of Marketing, then you might see the marketing team get larger budgets, more visibility with CEO. Politics can also be on the department level, such as who gets promoted and whether it’s tied to performance/merit or who is better friends with the department head or makes them look good.
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