Abstract:

The organizational political behaviour is the activity in which the individual of the organization, by using nonpositional power, influences or tries to influence the structures of the interest and relation within the organization. This essay, based on the dualism of the organizational political behaviour, gives an analysis of the source of the organizational politics, and, from the start of humanism, probes into the humanist foundation of the organizational political behaviour. The author holds that the organizational political behaviour is not always harmful. On one hand, the administrator should take man as the core of the society, identifying the other’s cause and effect of the political behaviour and keeping enough sensitivity of the position; on the other hand, he should use the power properly and play an active part in the power so as to avoid the destructive influence of his political behaviour.

Key words: power, political behavior, humanism, studies of organizational behavior