In organization with limited resources, people(and most living creatures) fight for the limited resources. In organizations it can be a fight for desired position. They can fight for the attention of decision makers. These fights have many strategies and ways. It can take the form of bad-name gossiping, that makes people disasociated from the "villain". It can take the form of prasining your alies and denauncing the work of your rivals. People will get into coalitions, when one coallition sabotage the work of another coallition.
People will envy people who they think got more then they deserv. People manytimes will over-estimate themselves (espeicialy conservatives) and underestimate others.
The solutions to a rivalery in organization can be:
- cultivating a spirit of mutual dependence and mutual goal
- creating a decision system in which every-body relay on every-body else (could not work), or just system of decision making (and of course cost-effective), and good spirit.
- Promoting a just system of reward and recognition.