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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
JUNE 2011
VOL 3, NO 2
responsibility given. As they refused to work on this extra assignment, it created a situation of
conflict between them and the senior management.
Some nominated team members did not even have appropriate writing skills which they did not
want to disclose as this might go against their interests and turn out to be a source of conflict
between them and the management, which delayed the process of SAR. Using their influence of
age and personality some senior people allocated this work to their juniors who were unable to
even understand the SAM.
Personal interest also played a vital role in this project as some team members wanted to prove
their worth in their department by taking up this project. They collected all the data required for
this SAR which included the filling up of forms from the students and teachers which was not
sufficient. Some team member had to face work- family conflict as they wanted to tackle both
family and work together and unable to resolve both, which caused delay in the completion of
this report and decisions made by managers in response to these workplace events had important
consequences. Personal differences amongst the members of one department also created role
conflict which had both negative and positive effect on the completion of this report.
Conclusion and Discussion
Organization politics does have an effect on the ways in which an individual responds to various
situations. With an awareness of the potential approaches employees can deal with the issues like
power, influence and conflict which can provide employees with tools that can help shape their
own work climate. After assessing the role of organizational politics in the implementation of
SAM, it was suggested that the organization for future work might like to consider the following
suggestions for the improvement and implementation of SAM in other campuses and in the
second round of assessment in Islamabad campus.
The role of senior management may be defined in the implementation of SAM so that there is no
conflict of power and interest; as power is not the act of changing others but it is the potential to
take people along.
Teams members who are working on this project may be given some incentive and recognition
so that they should work whole heartedly and not to just complete the work by cutting and
pasting. Their time in this work may be counted as research work and some teaching load may be
taken off from them. Their only interest was their career not of the organization
Coalition and coordination should be used instead of coercive power and in case of family work
conflict some standby arrangement should be provided to the team member.
As this is the process of institutionalization so there should be some policy designed to integrate
self assessment process in organizational mission, so that each department should start this work
as a regular process and from day one allocate this task to those people who are capable of
handling this work and have appropriate writing skills.
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