Selfish & Aggressive is Key of Shining Career
by Researchers believe the selfishness and aggression associated with corruption and irregularities.
A study shows a person’s personality is closely related to career development in the future. Employees are selfish and aggressive personality probably will not get the title as the most favored employees, but they tend to have a brilliant career.
While employees with interesting and friendly personality made it less attractive to obtain a promotion. Employees of this type also tend to be overlooked for promotion. Researchers found that aggressive nature implicitly indicates strength, while altruistic considered a weakness.
Research conducted Kellogg School of Management, Stanford School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business. The study aims to find a personality that relates to leadership.
In three series of experiments, participants are placed in groups. The researchers then analyzed the behaviors that represent them, how does one keep his position and how they contribute to the group.
The result, they are friendly most popular personality in the group. However, they also considered the most vulnerable and gullible. While people who have a dominant and aggressive behavior is seen as a personality ‘alpha’ or a leader.
Robert Livingston, from the Kellogg School, said, “Being a selfish makes you look more dominant and make you look more attractive as a leader, especially when there is competition,” he told Today. He added, “In an unconscious person conclude that kindness is a weakness.”
Livingston believes, the tendency of the aggressiveness with the leadership to explain the reasons why a person of corruption. “People who tend to be moral, good, and prosocial least likely to be chosen for leadership roles,” he said.
“That raises the possibility that corruption and irregularities occurred because we have the wrong leaders.”
But, Rob Kaplan, a former director at Goldman Sachs and professor at Harvard Business School, disagrees with the concept. “I do not believe that bad minded people to spend time to become a leader. I believe the opposite is true.”
He explained that the ideal values most in future leaders. “I’m not suggesting that you become a good person to become a leader. But, I think you have to have integrity, values, can work with others, and foster the potential of people,” he said.
Liked it
