9 tips to avoid a toxic company culture of office politics

This question originally appeared on Quora.



What is the best way to create and foster a work environment that has minimal office politics — particularly for a startup?



Answer below by Quora user Michael O. Church.

Well, the first question to ask is: Where do office politics come from? They come from systems that provide incentives for people to play political games. Such incentives might be:

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  Severe disparities in outcomes that appear to come more from popularity than actual contribution

  
  


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  Job insecurity

  
  


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  Work allocation protocol that doesn't adequately match people with work they'll find interesting, forcing people to gain control of the division of labor (i.e. become managers) if they want work relevant to their career aspirations

  
  


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  Large "ball of mud" projects that make employees' architects and leads look good while grunts do all the work, and because individual performance is often hard to demonstrate, receive little to no recognition

  
  


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  Importance attached to job titles and position in the organizational hierarchy Read more...

  
  

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