Whether we care to admit it or not, we all inevitably have to contend with organisational politics at some point. So when Future Women’s Alicia Stephenson sat down with former Secretary of the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, Kerri Hartland, to discuss the utility of office politics, there was plenty to cover.

So what do people mean when they talk about organisational or office politics? Hartland defines it simply as the ‘dynamics of people, or how things tick’.