"$15/h Loyalty Tested: Manager's Guilt-Trip Fails Spectacularly on Worker's Day Off"
The woman sounded off her frustration online: “I’m paid $15/hr. You don’t get to guilt me into unpaid loyalty”
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Guilt-prone people are often better employees and are perceived as good leaders
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Guilt-tripping at work, on the other hand, seems severely inappropriate. Yet, ironically, those who are easily pressured into feeling guilt actually make the most terrific employees. A 2011 study by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business found that employees who have more tendencies to feel guilt are more likely to have better performance reviews. Their peers also perceive them as better leaders.
The researchers also concluded that guilt-ridden people are more loyal to their workplaces. For example, they were less likely to protest layoffs and would carry them out more dutifully. Those who were prone to guilt also would uphold their company’s image publicly, feeling a sort of loyalty to it.
Yet one of the study’s co-authors, Francis Flynn, wanted to emphasize that this does not mean that guilt-tripping employees is always effective. He says that the negative effects of using guilt against employees have not been studied yet, but he suggests that it might impact employees’ personal lives.
In his research, Flynn hasn’t found guilt-prone people to be more stressed or to have lower job satisfaction. He says that guilt-ridden people are perhaps more selfless. “The guilty are more willing to make charitable contributions and assist colleagues in need,” he pointed out. “There seems to be a link between guilt and positive social behavior.”
Employees are responsible for setting their own boundaries when it comes to guilt-tripping bosses
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