Politics and Power in Today’s Corporate World

The effective organization of politics and power in business world today focuses on strong leadership, power and political issues. These elements are important for building organizations that value value, ethics, culture, and innovation. Analysis of the use of power and politics is important to understanding individual behavior within the organization. There are two aspects of power and politics. In a sense, power and politics mean the dark side of leadership. However, power and politics can become an active tool for administrators to carry out their work.

Machiavelli's outstanding political dominance is proven in the superpower world of today's corporation. Multinational companies in our global economy are more powerful than many governments and nation-states. Let's look at the relationship between Microsoft's Bill Gates and the United States Government, for example. As a result, Machiavelli's technology and strategy may be more demanding in an attempt to maintain the management of "subjects" of millions of jobs of a large global enterprise group. All old ones are new

The world economy has been dominated by relatively few large companies. Today, 37 of the world's 100 largest economies are companies (Transnational Research Institute, 2014). The Transnational Institute, Global Forum on Global Forum, and Globalization Research Center are three independent NGOs that constantly update the dangerous forces in the global economy. According to the 2011 survey by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, network connections among 43,000 multinational corporations were analyzed, among which a relatively small number (147 companies) had a highly connected "super entity" Formed. Total assets of multinational corporate network (Coghlan & MacKenzie, 2011)

The most prominent feature of the "brave new world" is the emergence of large multinational corporations. Commercial companies, especially multinational corporations, have the capacity to influence the enormous economic power and political parties of their own countries and other countries. The largest multinational corporations have larger budgets than all but a few (Giddens, 1990: 70). Of the world's 100 largest economies, there are only 51 countries and 49 countries (Policy Institute report, 2000: www.ips-dc.org). Huge economic power is concentrated on the hands of a few global companies born of government's growth restrictions. Current neo-liberal policies are creating stronger concentration to encourage companies to fuse or acquire competition and thereby strengthen their position in the global market (Korten, 1996: 26)