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
38
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.
By saying "being treated like doormats" (Para 5), the author implies that_____.
选项
A、the takers have posed a challenge for the managers
B、the takers are praised for their high productivity
C、the givers have been unfairly taken advantage of
D、the givers have been blamed for low productivity
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的being treated like doormats可定位到第五段④句。解答本题的关键在于搞清楚该段④句中的good people是指谁。该词对应的是上一句提到的already-generous people“慷慨的员工”,即givers。根据本段③句中的give away too much“过于付出”,even more ficense to take“得寸进尺的索取”以及doormats意思的形象表达可知,C项为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/yw57FFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Youaregoingtoreadalistofheadingsandatextaboutwhataleaderissupposedtoconsiderwhenmakingbigdecisions.Choos
Youaregoingtoreadalistofheadingsandatextaboutwhataleaderissupposedtoconsiderwhenmakingbigdecisions.Choos
Youaregoingtoreadalistofheadingsandatextaboutwhataleaderissupposedtoconsiderwhenmakingbigdecisions.Choos
Inasweepingchangetohowmostofits1,800employeesarepaid,theUnionSquareHospitalityGroupwilleliminatetippingatU
Inasweepingchangetohowmostofits1,800employeesarepaid,theUnionSquareHospitalityGroupwilleliminatetippingatU
Whetheryou’reaNewJerseymallratorafarmerinIndia,beingpoorcanexhaustyoursmarts.Thefindingsindicatethatan
Whetheryou’reaNewJerseymallratorafarmerinIndia,beingpoorcanexhaustyoursmarts.Thefindingsindicatethatan
Whetheryou’reaNewJerseymallratorafarmerinIndia,beingpoorcanexhaustyoursmarts.Thefindingsindicatethatan
随机试题
在计算机领域中通常用MIPS来描述计算机的
肿瘤性增生与炎性增生的根本区别是:
关于影像存储管理系统的叙述,错误的是
A.气逆证B.气滞证C.气闭证D.血瘀证E.血寒证患者饮冰啤酒后,脘腹痞胀不适,呃声频作,嗳气,舌象无异常,脉弦。其辨证为
在运用剩余法对居住用地土地价格进行评估时,对方法运用过程中有关技术参数的确定应注意的问题有()。
对信贷经营来说,对区域风险影响最大、最直接的因素是()。
在考察投资项目的相关现金流量时,下列属于无关现金流量的有()。
中国古代数学家对“一次同余论”的研究有_______的独创性和继承性,“大衍求一术”在世界数学史上的崇高地位是不容_______的。正因为这样,在西方数学史著作中,一直公正地称求解一次同余组的剩余定理为“中国剩余定理”。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项
在24×24点阵字库中,每个汉字的字模信息存储在多少个字节中?
A、Thecoach.B、Thecaptain.C、Aformerplayer.D、Abasketballfan.C①选项都是有关人物的身份,听音时注意人物的相关信息。②男士告诉女士球队的队员即将有新队服了,女士问为什么,男士告知是该球
最新回复
(
0
)