首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Every day, employees make decisions about whether to act like givers or like takers. When they act like givers, they contribute
Every day, employees make decisions about whether to act like givers or like takers. When they act like givers, they contribute
admin
2018-07-10
832
问题
Every day, employees make decisions about whether to act like givers or like takers. When they act like givers, they contribute to others without seeking anything in return. They might offer assistance, share knowledge, or make valuable introductions. When they act like takers, they try to get other people to serve their ends while carefully guarding their own expertise and time.
Organizations have a strong interest in fostering giving behavior. A willingness to help others achieve their goals lies at the heart of effective collaboration, innovation, quality improvement, and service excellence. In workplaces where such behavior becomes the norm, the benefits multiply quickly.
But even as leaders recognize the importance of generous behavior and call for more of it, workers receive mixed messages about the advisability of acting in the interests of others. As a matter of fact, various situations put employees against one another, encouraging them to undercut rather than support their colleagues’ efforts. Even without a dog-eat-dog scoring system, strict description of responsibilities and a focus on individual performance metrics can cause a "not my job" mentality to take hold.
As employees look around their organizations for models of success, they encounter further reasons to be wary of generosity. A study by the Stanford professor Frank Flynn highlighted this problem. When he examined patterns of favor exchange among the engineers in one company, he found that the leastproductive engineers were givers—workers who had done many more favors for others than they’d received. I made a similar discovery in a study of salespeople: The ones who generated the least revenue reported a particularly strong concern for helping others.
This creates a challenge for managers. Can they promote generosity without cutting into productivity and undermining fairness? How can they avoid creating situations where already-generous people give away too much of their attention while selfish coworkers feel they have even more license to take? How, in short, can they protect good people from being treated like doormats?
Part of the solution must involve targeting the takers in the organization—providing incentives for them to collaborate and informing them of the consequences of refusing reasonable requests. But even more important, my research suggests, is helping the givers act on their generous impulses more productively. The key is for employees to gain a more subtle understanding of what generosity is and is not. Givers are better positioned to succeed when they distinguish generosity from three other attributes-timidity, availability, and empathy—that tend to travel with it.
According to the author, givers are characterized by being _____.
选项
A、sharing
B、selfless
C、productive
D、collaborative
答案
B
解析
该题考查givers“付出者”的特点。第一段①句提到本题的关键词givers,指出公司员工每天都要作出充当付出者还是索取者的决定。随后②③句用来说明什么是付出者。从②句的without seeking anything in return可知,givers的特点是为他人着想,不考虑自己的利益。故答案选B项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Tu6Z777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Theworldisonthetopofastaggeringriseinthenumberofoldpeople,andtheywilllivelongerthaneverbefore.【C1】______t
Youaregoingtoreadalistofheadingsandatextaboutwhataleaderissupposedtoconsiderwhenmakingbigdecisions.Choos
You’veheardoftheAmericandream,right?【F1】TheAmericandreamwasthismachinewebuilttogetridofuncertaintyandcreate
Nearlytwo-thirdsofbusinessesintheUKwanttorecruitstaffwithforeignlanguageskills.Frenchisstillthemosthighlypr
Nearlytwo-thirdsofbusinessesintheUKwanttorecruitstaffwithforeignlanguageskills.Frenchisstillthemosthighlypr
Nearlytwo-thirdsofbusinessesintheUKwanttorecruitstaffwithforeignlanguageskills.Frenchisstillthemosthighlypr
Maybeunemploymentisn’tsobadafterall.Anewstudysaysthathavingademanding,unstableandthanklessjobmaymakeyoueve
Maybeunemploymentisn’tsobadafterall.Anewstudysaysthathavingademanding,unstableandthanklessjobmaymakeyoueve
Maybeunemploymentisn’tsobadafterall.Anewstudysaysthathavingademanding,unstableandthanklessjobmaymakeyoueve
Whetheryou’reaNewJerseymallratorafarmerinIndia,beingpoorcanexhaustyoursmarts.Thefindingsindicatethatan
随机试题
患者,男,36岁。站立或咳嗽时右侧腹股沟区出现肿块2年,可进入阴囊,平卧或用手推送,肿块可部分回纳腹腔而缩小,诊断为腹股沟斜疝。此时疝的临床类型属于
患儿,男,10个月。出生体重4200g,生后即有腹胀、便秘,平时多睡不爱哭闹。仍不会坐。查体:皮肤干燥,面部黏液水肿,舌大而宽厚,伸出口外,心率86次/分,心音低钝,腹部膨隆,有脐疝。最可能的诊断是
氨基甲酸酯类中毒解救时,为防治并发症,在严重时可选用()。
最高人民法院《关于审理涉外民事或商事合同纠纷案件法律适用若干问题的规定》对涉外合同准据法的查明作出了新规定,其主要内容有:()。
建设项目总概算是编制和确定建设项目()
审计的独立性表现在()。
下列各项中,关于留存收益的表述正确的有()。
Ican’tdecidewhethertogosailingor,becauseofthebadweatherforecast,______athome.
显示器的主要参数之一是分辨率,其含义是______。
WhatIfACollegeEducationJustIsn’tforEveryone?[A]LongbeforethepresidentsworelastyearthatAmericawill"havethehi
最新回复
(
0
)