Research Paper Organizational Behavior
Name: Mehmet. Beyaztas
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Assignment: Summarize the Article
Competent Jerks and Lovable fools
The article that I choose for my paper deals with networking in the workplace. The article discusses the sources of tension between coworkers in the place. The problem that management has to solve is encouraging people to work together as a team. In order to do this, study was conducted to find out what factors people use to choose the coworkers they like to work with.
Result of this study used to make the organization more efficient. Since the cooperation in the workplace is the common problem. I like the approach of interviewing people from, a variety of corporations, including large, small, public, private companies, to find out why people like to work with certain people. Some parts of the study was useful if the company that I manage tell in the one of the category that was used in study. I would consider using some of their recommendation. Some situations that weren’t covered in survey were requiring different solution. People choose their work partners according to two criteria. One is competence at the job, the other is likability. These two criteria-competence and likability combine to produce four archetypes; the competent jerk who knows a lot but unpleasant to work with, the lovable fool, who doesn’t know much but it’s delight to have around, the lovable star who’s both smart and likable, and incompetent jerk; who has unlikable personality and has nothing to put on the table.
If someone strongly disliked, it’s almost irrelevant whether or not his competent, people won’t want to work with him anyway. If someone is liked, his colleagues will seek out every little bit of competence he has to offer. Generally speaking, a little extra likability goes a longer way than little extra competence in making someone desirable to work with. Competence is more important than likability in some people’s
Subject: Organizational Behavior
Assignment: Summarize the Article
Competent Jerks and Lovable fools
The article that I choose for my paper deals with networking in the workplace. The article discusses the sources of tension between coworkers in the place. The problem that management has to solve is encouraging people to work together as a team. In order to do this, study was conducted to find out what factors people use to choose the coworkers they like to work with.
Result of this study used to make the organization more efficient. Since the cooperation in the workplace is the common problem. I like the approach of interviewing people from, a variety of corporations, including large, small, public, private companies, to find out why people like to work with certain people. Some parts of the study was useful if the company that I manage tell in the one of the category that was used in study. I would consider using some of their recommendation. Some situations that weren’t covered in survey were requiring different solution. People choose their work partners according to two criteria. One is competence at the job, the other is likability. These two criteria-competence and likability combine to produce four archetypes; the competent jerk who knows a lot but unpleasant to work with, the lovable fool, who doesn’t know much but it’s delight to have around, the lovable star who’s both smart and likable, and incompetent jerk; who has unlikable personality and has nothing to put on the table.
If someone strongly disliked, it’s almost irrelevant whether or not his competent, people won’t want to work with him anyway. If someone is liked, his colleagues will seek out every little bit of competence he has to offer. Generally speaking, a little extra likability goes a longer way than little extra competence in making someone desirable to work with. Competence is more important than likability in some people’s