...informal practice: Distilled to its essence, therefore, politics refers to individual or group behaviour that is informal, ostensibly parochial, typically...authority, accepted ideology, nor certified expertise (though it may exploit any one of those). (Mintzberg 1983: 172: emphasis removed) The political nature...

...self-interest. Distilled to its essence, therefore, politics refers to individual or group behaviour that is informal, ostensibly parochial, typically...authority, accepted ideology, nor certified expertise (though it may exploit any one of those). (Mintzberg 1983: 172, emphasis removed) These definitions...

...there are the theorists who see political behavior as undesirable behavior. Mintzbergtl9S3) said that "politics refers to individual or group behavior that...authority, accepted ideology, nor certified expertise tthough it may exploit any of these)" Ip. 172). In a similar vein, Mayes and Allen t 1 977) saw organizational...

...disagreement. This perception is much in line with Mintzberg (1983:172) who argued that politics refer to 'individual or group behavior that is informal,...ostensibly parochial, typically divisive, and above all, in a technical sense, illegitimate sanctioned neither by formal authority, accepted ideology, nor certified...

...build into the definition the idea that organizational politics is illegitimate. Mintzberg says that politics refers to individual or group behavior that...authority, accepted ideology, nor certified expertise. (1983: 172) Mintzberg's position has been questioned elsewhere (see eg Vigoda 2003: 23-5). However,...

...management teams. Distilled to its essence, the conventional view of organizational politics refers to behavior that is 'informal, ostensibly parochial,...authority, accepted ideology, nor certified expertise (though it may exploit any one of those)' (Mintzberg 1983: 172). Thus, power became equated with illegitimate,...

...incremental change is a more likely result. In a similar vein, Mintzberg (1983) defines politics as "individual or group behavior that is informal, ostensibly...and above all, in the technical sense, illegitimate" (p. 172). He views politics as a force for change, describing the numerous games played to achieve...

...approach can be found in the definition given by Henry Mintzberg in his book on power and politics: Politics refers to individual or group behavior that...authority, accepted ideology, nor certified expertise (though it may exploit any one of them).4 In light of this approach to organizational politics, it...