Sometime back there was an article published in TOI assent Viral Effect. Many of us may have read that article. It was nice article about EGO Clash and Favoritism in corporate world.
It is happening everywhere and every company is paying for it. Favoritism in the workplace is never a good thing that we know but it is happening. It can lead to anger, jealousy, decreased morale, lowered productivity, and in extreme cases even lawsuits.
Sometime your managers give higher role and responsibility to people because they are social with them or like them not necessarily because of their quality of work and without considering policy of their own company. And those people again misuse their responsibility and promote and recommend their own colleagues for higher salary. It lead an EGO clashes between experience/committed employee with buttering people. Those people don?t aware about their true reasonability to grow whole practice in one knit but their man task be increase their own strength. They don?t even know the management skill at all; don?t know the company policies but they know how to impress their manager.
Management also ignores such things but unknowingly this kind of culture is spreading like Cancer in the corporate sector. The impact of this culture is so high that if you raise your concern in front of your manager then instead of understanding the concern by getting into his team member?s shoes, he creates his own perception of negativity and in turn concern the team member with a REBELIOUS attitude!!!
Accept it or not but the bitter fact is once any such perception has been created against anyone, it follows the person like his/her shadow. Atleast till the time that fellow is in the same organization.
For instance, I have read one good article about favoritism where trainer has asked from their participants that ?How many of you own a dog that you love?? Big smiles cross the faces of these leaders as they wave their hands in the air. They beam as they tell trainer the names of their always faithful hounds. Then he asks again, ?At home, who gets the most unqualified positive recognition? Is it (a) your husband, wife or partner (b) your kids or (c) your dog?" More than 80 percent of the time the winner is the dog.
He next asks these same executives, ?Do you really love your dog more than the other members of your family?? They laugh and say no. his next question, ?Why does the dog get the most unqualified positive recognition??
Their replies are always the same: ?The dog doesn?t talk back.? ?When they come home the dog is always happy to see me!? ?Even if they come home late (or drunk) the dog doesn?t care.? ?The dog gives me unconditional love ? no matter what they do!?
If we aren?t careful, we can wind up treating people at work like dogs. We can unconsciously recognize people who recognize us.
?So, does this mean that in the corporate sector, one has to actually work by keeping their eyes and ears closed to survive for his/her fittest?? Does this mean that we are not suppose to clear the clouds of concerns even if the organization has bottom to top level transparency?
If a company allows a manager to behave in this fashion, then there may be other unhealthy flaws in the company's corporate culture.
Maybe you land in a job where your manager turns to a couple of go-to people for every decent project, leaving the rest of an able staff underutilized and disillusioned.
It is important that each of us has a relationship with our supervisor or manager that is built on trust, candor, and fairness. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. Some supervisors have compromised their authority and the respect they could command by allowing favoritism, real or perceived.
Favoritism is dangerous. It creeps into the workplace and shows itself when we least expect it. It destroys relationships and trusts. It feeds on our initiative. It lives in the shadows and is often perceived by some and not others, even when it is not real.
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| 1. Posted 2009/11/05 13:16:09 By Sachin Sisodia |
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