How to deal with bosses and employees

Chapter 31 How to be a Competent and Good Employee - Career Development and Career (14)

[-]. Don’t get caught up in company factions
The existence of any company is actually the existence of an interest group.A company is a company where shareholders gather together to jointly invest and set up a platform to achieve the purpose of pursuing interests. With the operation of the company, everyone has their own interests, including some senior employees in the company. field of interest.If the big boss of a company is not very powerful, but the shareholders and even senior executives are relatively balanced, it is likely to form a company's political factions and show a series of game phenomena.This is indeed a very embarrassing thing for some young employees who are not familiar with the world or do not understand the company's cultural background.For this reason, many people will ask the question "what should I do?"We suggest that it is better not to get involved in the so-called factions within the company.

1. It is normal for companies to have factional struggles, so don’t be afraid
In the process of a company's birth to development, facing fierce market competition, some will be swallowed by the ruthless market, and some will gradually grow stronger.Regardless of the outcome, as long as the company exists, there is the possibility of internal factional struggles.Because internal conflicts are unavoidable, if multiple shareholders participate, conflicts of interest are more likely to arise, and once different internal interest groups are formed, the prelude to real factional struggles will begin.Factional struggles in companies are often relatively hidden, which also makes some people deeply disgusted, and even unwilling to accept the fact that this is happening around them. You must know that factional struggles are not the monopoly of the political field, as long as there are interests. , As long as there are three people staying, there may be factional struggles.So there is no need to look at this issue with too much negative emotion, we should face it calmly.

2. The factional struggle in the company is a vortex, and the weak are often easily involved and swallowed, so generally don't get close

Every protagonist involved in the company's factional struggle will either explicitly or covertly attract some stakeholders to participate in this protracted game, and those who are most likely to be involved are often some weak members of the company, because they do not understand the principles of office politics. The rules of the game may not be sensitive enough. They are often still in the key areas of faction competition. If they do not have strong personal capital, they will be the first to be swallowed.In the faction struggle, it is difficult for anyone to predict which side will have the better scenery. Now that you are in it, some people just rely on luck, but it is generally better for the weak not to get close.

3. Don’t confuse legitimate interests with factionalism

There are also people who are too sensitive and confuse the legitimate interests of the company with factional struggles, thus losing their legitimate and legal interests.This is very bad, and there is no need for us to turn pale or shy away from it.The legitimate conflict of interests is reasonable, legal, and obvious, and it is not some conspiracy or ulterior motive.Therefore, if it is one's own legal interests, there is no need to give in. Even if factional struggles are involved, it cannot conflict with national laws, and the leaders of enterprises will not ignore the overall interests of the company.

Case Story 1:

Li Gang is a very capable person, with seven or eight years of work experience, and worked as a department manager for several years, so when he was 30 years old, he chose to leave his original company to apply for a project manager in a company. Make career transition choices for yourself.Because he hopes to use the resources of the company boss to start a relatively independent business of his own, it is undoubtedly a good path to apply for a project manager.

Based on Li Gang's actual conditions are more in line with the requirements of the new company, so he was admitted smoothly.Li Gang also performed very well in his future work. From the very beginning, his new project planning, organization and implementation, project operation and other series of work have satisfied the boss very much, and the project management has begun to bear fruit.However, the company's management is not very standardized, and there are often multiple leaders. Li Gang feels that the company's senior leadership responsibilities are not clear, which leads to some deviations in his work. He also knows that a large part of the reason is that a vice president of the company is playing tricks. Some political tactics are afraid that Li Gang's outstanding work performance will shake his position in the heart of the boss.But Li Gang didn't realize the power of the vice president at this time. After all, the vice president had been with the boss for many years, and he hadn't been here for a long time.Li Gang is also a very strong person, unwilling to "bow his head" to the vice president, he insisted on fighting with the vice president, but after a few rounds, Li Gang was defeated, because no matter how good your work is, the vice president can't help it In front of the president, he was picky. Within half a year, Li Gang fired him because his boss was not satisfied with his work performance. The project that Li Gang was in charge of was taken over by the vice president himself.Later, an old employee of a company told Li Gang: "In the company, I would rather offend the president than the vice president." This is really telling the truth.It can also be seen from this that once an unrooted employee gets involved in a company's political struggle, it will definitely be very dangerous and even fatal.

Case Story 2:

Xiaolin worked in a small joint-stock company. With his hard work and solid professional knowledge, he soon became an indispensable technical backbone of the company.Both the boss and the vice president successively expressed their intention to cultivate him. Xiaolin was very happy, and felt that his achievements had been affirmed by the leaders, and his future was bright!But it didn't take long for an old employee to tell him in private that the boss and the vice president didn't get along, and he had to figure out which side to stand on, otherwise it would be hard to do.It was the first time for Xiao Lin to encounter such a thing, and he was confused for a while.After weighing it, I decided to remain neutral and no one should offend.But after that, both the boss and the vice president often assign work to him.For a period of time, Xiao Lin was so busy that he couldn't even sleep well at night, but in the end, not only did he not get praise from the two leaders, he was scolded in the east and scolded in the west.Kobayashi wondered, did he do something wrong?When he was depressed, a well-meaning old employee told him again, you are now the celebrity in the "two elders" competition, you don't rely on either side, you must be angry with both sides, it is better to be one-sided than this.Xiaolin was right when he thought about it, he needed to find a protective umbrella, as the saying goes that it is good to enjoy the shade under a big tree.So he decided to stand on the side of the boss who interviewed him, so he started to get closer to the boss, and even listened to the boss's direct arrangement, and reported to the vice president for every arrangement before implementing it.After this fight, Xiao Lin's life was indeed much easier.Because the boss often publicly praised him and spoke for him in front of the vice president, but the good times didn't last long, and the boss was decided by the board of directors to be transferred to another affiliated company not long after, and the vice president directly "rectified".Xiaolin never thought that the boss would leave. If he knew this, why didn't he rely on the vice president?I really regret it!Just one month after the boss was transferred, Xiao Lin also resigned and went to find another job, but will the next station waiting for him be a calm interpersonal environment?

Comments: Factional struggle itself is a game that is only suitable for qualified shareholders or senior executives. Any other participant is just a pawn and may be eaten by the opponent at any time , but for the players, it is always an endless endgame.Therefore, instead of walking around with the baton of interests like a chess piece, it is better to avoid some interest fields cleverly and be a free and easy chess watcher.

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