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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Just a thought, worked at smaller regional companies as well as MNCs ...discovered that office politics is more prevalent in huge MNCs...perhaps when company is big, people are less accountable and less work to be done, people have time to do office politics?
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I have worked in SMEs and global MNCs before. I would say both have office politics, but politics in small companies tend to be very straightforard. For e.g. in small co politic all u need is really just 2 skills, make the boss/big boss happy and taichi work and blame to others along the way.
In global MNCs because of the interlocking matrix strucutre that is constantly changing between many different department, stakeholder and peers, you have to think of some way to increase visibility, slowly build multiple patronage lines and choose when to act "on" when to taichi work and when to expense political capital to "own up" to faults in order to invest in goodwill and when to siam blame if it's too dangerous or complex.