Political Games in Universities: A Case Study

Power has a great importance in organization life, which has intense social relations. People working organizations might play various political games in order to get power or maintain the control they have over other people. The purpose of this study is to elicit political games that academicians p...

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Published inProcedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 174; pp. 2700 - 2712
Main Authors Yazıcı, Elif, Nartgün, Şenay Sezgin, Özhan, Tuğçe
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2015
Subjects
Case Studies
College Faculty
Content Analysis
Data Analysis
Educational Change
Foreign Countries
Organizational Change
Phenomenology
political games
politics
Politics of Education
power
Power Structure
Resistance (Psychology)
Semi Structured Interviews
Teacher Administrator Relationship
Teacher Behavior
Teacher Rights
Universities
Turkey
politics
power
universities
political games
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Summary:Power has a great importance in organization life, which has intense social relations. People working organizations might play various political games in order to get power or maintain the control they have over other people. The purpose of this study is to elicit political games that academicians play in universities. In this study data were collected through semi structured interview method and analysed with descriptive and content analysis. One of the results is that academicians working in universities challenge to formal authorities from time to time. Especially they react to the authorities when the problem is about their rights and duties...
ISSN:1877-0428
1877-0428
DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.955