Everyone Hates the Office Suck-Up
August 27, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Children aren’t the only ones who harbor resentment toward a teacher’s pet. Overachievers, it seems, are resented in the workplace too, according to a group of studies conducted by Washington State University.
Through a battery of experiments, researchers found that despite a worker’s willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty to achieve a greater goal, their co-workers secretly wanted the do-gooder off the team.
“People feel driven to outdo the group member who is setting the standard,” Craig Parks, social psychologist and lead author of the study, said in his bluntly-titled report, The Desire to Expel Unselfish Members From the Group. “To compete with such a person means that one would need to give even more and take even less, not a very desirable prospect. …
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