Kissing to boss at workplace is bad behaviour

Hi friends. Kissing to boss at workplace may boost someone career but studies shows it leads to bad behaviour at work place and it reduces your self esteem.

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There is a personal cost to ingratiate yourself with your boss, "said Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of administration at the Oregon State University School of Business and lead author of the paper.When your energy runs out, you can push yourself into a loose territory. "

The results were recently published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Gratification is just one of the many behaviors that employees use to create and maintain the desired image in the workplace. Previous research has shown that using these behaviors, collectively known as impression management tactics, can have benefits for employees, including greater performance evaluation.

"Generally, workplace impression management is about wanting and being able to appear," said co-author Lawrence Houston III, assistant professor of administration at the OSU School of Business.

Klotz, Houston and their co-authors surveyed how 75 professionals in China used two supervisor-based impression management tactics (congratulations and self-promotion) during two weeks of work.

The congratulations or kisses usually include compliments, meeting with the supervisor's opinion and favors. Self-promotion refers to taking credit for success, bragging about performance and highlighting connections with other important people.

The study participants, mid-level managers of a large, publicly traded software company, completed their daily surveys of their experiences at the workplace and also conducted a survey to measure their political capabilities, which is the set of social skills that helps them to understand others at work, to influence others in ways that improve their goals and navigate in social situations with confidence.

The researchers found that the degree of employee participation in the reward varied widely from one day to the next. They also found that the more employees are busy kissing, the more their self-control resources run out at the end of the day.

It is logical that gratification is running out, because the kiss successfully requires the appearance of sincerity and this requires self-control, Klotz said.

The exhausted employees were more likely to participate in the deviation from the workplace, such as lack of civic education towards a work colleague, renunciation of a meeting or surfing the Internet instead of working. There is no evidence of a similar link between self-promotion and depletion of resources, the researchers said.

"It is also important to keep in mind that the effects of exhaustion of gratification are immediate, but the benefits at work of those acts tend to develop over the long haul," said Houston.

The researchers also found that gratification was less stressful for employees with high levels of political ability. Those with relatively high political skills were less likely to engage in deviance after handling impressions than their less politically savvy colleagues, indicating that political capacity can serve as a buffer against the effects of adherence.

The results of the study suggest that employees should be aware of the possible effects of gratification and the power of political ability to help them manage appropriate and less tiring membership, Klotz said.

"Also, if you feel exhausted, you may want to take steps to recover: take a walk, talk with a friend, have a snack," he said. "In general, it's better to let exhaustion occur in other ways, like skipping a meeting or being rude to a colleague."

Executives at work should also be aware that gratification has a cost to employees and their response to an employee's action can play a role in determining what the cost is, Houston said.

"Leaders can respond to efforts to ingratiate themselves with their employees in ways that run out of resources or in ways that are more resourceful," he said.