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Empirical evidence that nice people don't always finish last:
Think your boss is a jerk? Wonder why the management of your organization consists of sociopaths? Some academic researchers suspect you're not alone, and they start their new paper with the statement, "We suffer no shortage of jerks in power." And they go on to ask the obvious question raised by this fact: "Does being a jerk help people attain power?"
To find out, the researchers set up a very long-term experiment. After administering personality surveys to undergrad and MBA students, they waited over a decade to follow up and find out which personality types had accrued power in the world of employment. The results suggest that jerks don't necessarily get ahead at work; instead, some of the consequences of being unpleasant offset the benefits that it might otherwise provide.
[...] The good news here is that, as the researchers put it, "individuals who were more selfish, combative, and deceitful did not, subsequently, attain higher power." So, nice people do not necessarily finish last. But, at the same time, nobody seems to be held back by displaying that list of behaviors on the job.
Journal Reference:
Cameron Anderson, Daron L. Sharps, Christopher J. Soto, et al. People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in pursuing power at work [$], Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005088117)
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 02 2020, @05:52AM (6 children)
Maybe they're just not measuring the metrics that actually allow you to get ahead. Further, maybe they need to find some metrics with which to measure the companies in which the assholes get ahead, and those in which nicer people get ahead. Not all work environments are equal, after all. A scumbag can excel in a scummy company (not mentioning any names Zuk) but be held back in a not-so-scummy company.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @06:28AM
Yes let's not mention any names UCLA.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 02 2020, @06:55AM (3 children)
> Maybe they're just not measuring the metrics that actually allow you to get ahead...
like being able to pass for a non-sociopath in a statisticians' interview.
We all know who are the top fellows in the top corporations. Look at their eyes.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday September 02 2020, @06:57AM (2 children)
redundant, see #1045271
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:24PM (1 child)
Awww bigoted moron fascist sympathizer having a hard time debating runaway? You two deserve each other.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday September 04 2020, @10:11AM
Fascists are socialists too, sleep tight.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:33PM
Seems to me that the key word is *always*. Just like poor people don't *always* stay poor - that's just the way to bet since the game is stacked against them.