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
2015-02-09
30
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 delineation 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 least-productive 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 establishing repercussions for 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。第一段第1句提到问题的关键词givers,指出公司员工每天都要做出充当付出者还是索取者的决定。随后第2、3句用来说明什么是付出者。从第2句的without seekinganything 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。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/tZK4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Hecompliedwiththerequirementthatallgraduatestudentsineducation______athesis.
Youaresupposedto______inyourcompositionyesterday.
"Cleverness"ChargedBarbedWireNetCurrentGroup,aGermantown-basedtechnologyfirm,hastakenoveranordinarylookingh
ThinJustByWayofSatisfyVaingloryNowomancanbetoorichortoothin.ThissayingoftenattributedtothelateDuchess
VideoGameandChildtheSchoolExpressResearchersaretryingtotellparentssomethingaboutwhatkindsofvideogameschi
CheatsinCollegeAdmissionsExamsandCounterplansWhathappenstostudentswhocheatonthetwocollegeadmissionsexams,
ThinJustByWayofSatisfyVaingloryNowomancanbetoorichortoothin.ThissayingoftenattributedtothelateDuchess
ItisgenerallybelievedthatthedigitaldivideissomethingThepurposeoftheauthorinwritingthetextis
ItisgenerallybelievedthatthedigitaldivideissomethingTheauthorseemstobelievethatwidenedwagegapcanbeattribut
Digitalphotographyisstillnewenoughthatmostofushaveyettoformanopinionaboutit,(1)_____developapointofview.
随机试题
劳动法基本原则的确认依据是()
内环境中最活跃的部分是
受害人对于损害的发生也有过错的,()。
教育的社会属性有哪些?
OnSeptember7,2001,a68-year-oldwomaninStrasbourg,France,hadhergallbladder(胆囊)removedby-surgeonsoperating,viacomp
胁痛的辨证,当以何者为主
结核性脑膜炎脑脊液的特点是
测量误差按其产生的原因和对测量结果影响性质的不同可分为()。
在各大基金评级机构上都能看到夏普比率的相关资料,如果A基金的夏普比率为0.5,而B基金的夏普比率为0.7,则下列判断正确的是()。
试述影响人格形成和发展的因素。
最新回复
(
0
)