Organizational Politics ORGANZIATIONAL POLTICS

Organization politics is not just part of every organization but it is also an important aspect of the business from the view point of CIO (Chief Information Officer). In both the long run and short run, CIO with his authority over the transfer of information will decide the decision making psyche of CFO and CEO.

The CIO, CFO and CEO are three legs of tripod and with any of them missing, the tripod is not of much use. But out of these three legs the CIO (Chief Information Officer) has the most importance because the setup that he will put in place or his handling of information will ultimately lead to performance and credibility of CEO and CFO. Without a good flow of information, whose responsibility ultimately lies of the CIO, the organization functions will work on itself, sometimes producing results that are helpful and sometimes will cause a downfall.

Judith Zito, the CIO of Miami-Dade County is of the opinion that giving CIO a little authority to make decision is not a big sell and by giving him a little authority will result lead to increase in credibility. (Low, 2004) In a sense from the Zito's perspective, it is clear that CEO, CFO and CIO are the ultimate decision makers of the within an organization, even though it is mentioned above that CIO does not have a decision making authority but he does have the power to influence the all the decision making minds like the CEO and CFO of the business.

Even though the CIO has no direct control over any of the information that is input in the system but he does have all the power as to where particular information shall be transferred. If the CIO hears of an important decision making gossip from all the grapevine within an organization, and the CIO believes that the organization has to make the decision but is not financial strong enough to keep up its commitment regarding the decision; then the CIO is intelligent enough to know what type information shall...

It can remain totally neutral like CNN or act completely biased in the favor or right-wing agenda like Fox news; the phenomenon is known as information manipulation. This type of information has been used throughout the history of human beings and the concept is mostly used by religious scholars by the adequately adding or subtracting words or making the topic write in such a form that it becomes unbiased even though in the mind the writer the concept is to make a particular person appear favorable by taking a neutral perspective by intense rationalization and intellectualization.
The first example is from Islamic history, ever since the death of Islamic prophet Mohammed, there exists two groups regarding who should succeed him a leader of Muslim State; One Shia and the Sunni. One of the candidates was Ali, who was married to the prophet's daughter and was the first cousin of Prophet, was supported by Shias, the second candidate was Abu Bakr who was the father in law of the prophet and a very distant relative of the prophet supported by the Sunnis. After very soft-core chaos Abu Bakr became the caliph. (Madelung, 1998)

After Abu Bakr's selection as a Caliph, Fatima, the prophet's daughter asked for her inheritance but was refused on the ground that the prophet had said that, "his community would not inherit anything from the him after his death." Ali replied by quoting a verse from the Quran in which God has said that Solomon became David heir. If anyone examines Sunni books about the tradition it will be evident that the part where Ali quotes the verse from Quran is left out and in the Shia books the verse from Quran is written. The is what the these two faction do throughout, hiding or at least manipulating the facts in a way to make Ali or Abu Bakr make look good in the eyes of their communities.…