If you want to climb the corporate ladder and get a fat pay cheque adopt rude behaviour by refraining from saying 'thank you' and 'sorry' during workplace interactions unless justified suggests a new study.
A recent study examining the relationship between agreeableness, income and gender revealed that the workplace does tend to reward disagreeable behaviour.my Reiter toughens up.
A recent study examining the relationship between agreeableness, income and gender revealed that the workplace does tend to reward disagreeable behaviour.my Reiter toughens up.
It showed that disagreeable men tend to earn more than agreeable men, and disagreeable women, though they earn less than both nice and not-nice guys, earn more than agreeable women.
"'Niceness' - in the form of the trait of agreeableness - does not appear to pay," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted researchers as saying.
The study also found that the rewards of disagreeableness for women are limited, far more so than for men.
"If a man is disagreeable, he is thought to be tough and leader-like," one of the study's co-authors, Timothy A. Judge said.
"If a woman is disagreeable, the 'b-word' is applied to her."
The study has been published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Source: ANI
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