ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS: AN ECLIPSE ON THE ECONOMY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Knowledge based economy determines a nation’s overall progress to compete in the comity of nations and higher education sector plays a living role in sustainable development of different sectors.  The study unfolds the concerns of the sixty educationists, having 5-10 years experience of public sector higher education, engaged in transferring knowledge and skills to the coming generation in various disciplines. The opinionnaire based quantitative cum qualitative research highlights the worries of highly educated community with regard to the impacts of organizational politics by stating that those involved in organizational politics not only prove themselves as stumbling block in the professional growth of higher education students but damage the image of the concerned organization which can cause intellectual paucity. The study suggests that though politics provides ways to manage things but permanent involvement in organizational politics generates further academic and management problems by compromising economy of higher education and students’ creativity.