The Games We Play: Workplace Politics 101

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Getting things done in the office can sometimes be a challenge if the people you work with chose to make it so.

Join us for the July IABC/Brazos Valley professional development meeting as Mays Business School Clinical Associate Professor Roemer Visser teaches us how to effectively navigate the stormy waters of workplace politics. This interactive presentation will review the most common sources of power found in organizations today, and the political games that people play as a result.

Roemer Visser holds a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the Vrije University in Amsterdam and a doctorate in Human Resource Development from Texas A&M University. He worked as a corporate recruiter for Unilever in the Netherlands and an Emerson Electric subsidiary in Austin, Texas, before enrolling in the doctoral program in Texas A&M.

Prior to joining the faculty at Mays Business School, he was a senior employee development specialist in the Human Resources Department and, prior to that, management analyst in the Department of Multicultural Services.

He has found that this work experience was very good preparation for his first course in Workplace Politics at Mays. His marriage and his new venture into parenthood are proving to be even more relevant to the topic.

“The Games We Play: Workplace Politics 101”
Thursday, July 16, 2009
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Cocanougher Special Events Center
Wehner Building, Texas A&M University (West Campus)
College Station, TX 77843

Click here to register now. The final day to register for this event is Monday, July 13.

Please note that this event is a brown bag luncheon. Paid parking will be available in Lot 72.

Admission is $3 for IABC members and $5 for nonmembers. (If you prepay using Google checkout, an extra dollar will be charged to cover the service fee.) You may pay online in advance (preferred), or with cash or check at the door. IABC/Brazos Valley will no longer invoice individuals, companies or Texas A&M University departments.

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