Even Small Business Can’t Avoid the Office Politics Blues

March 23, 2010 by Rita Marshall 

Mixing family and business. Cliques. High maintenance employees (or bosses).

They may seem like the banes of corporations, but plenty of small businesses also struggle with the problems of office politics. (I’d phrase it more as “workplace politics” since a filing cabinet or coffee maker isn’t a requirement for these situations to arise.)

www.officepolitics.com is a great site that features advice on different workplace dilemmas from coaches, lawyers and mediators. You can submit your own problem or read through the archives, which include situations such as:

- The new guy I hired is HATED
- My co-worker is hogging information
- Lose our funding because of a few bad apples?

The website also sells Dear Office-Politics, a book game that “teaches you how to play (and laugh at) office politics.”