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The study, from academics at three elite universities, looked at the impacts of fake positive reactions to jokes by employees. It found that bosses who make too many jokes actually increase the amount of surface acting employees do, which can then lead to emotional exhaustion or burnout, and lower levels of job satisfaction. AdvertisementThe study found that the leaders who frequently made jokes increased surface acting in followers, which subsequently resulted in poor well-being outcomes, including emotional exhaustion. AdvertisementThe surface acting can trigger a cycle of negative well-being outcomes for employees, per the study. When leaders are more thoughtful about their humor, it actually alleviates the pressure of surface acting.
Persons: , Randall Peterson, Xiaoran Hu, Michael Parke, Grace Simon, Peterson, they're Organizations: Service, Academy of Management, London Business School, London School of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, US Army Locations: United States
A study from the University of London academics looked into the Big Five personality traits at work. "Two cooperative people will outperform two competitive people every time," a co-author told CNBC. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Their paper, titled "Kill chaos with kindness," looked at the Big Five personality traits: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. "The basic truth is if you have one competitive person and one cooperative person, the competitive person will always win," Peterson told CNBC.
Persons: agreeableness, Randall Peterson, Peterson Organizations: University of London, Big, CNBC, Service, Privacy, Employees, London School of Business Locations: Wall, Silicon
But recently, managers are starting to prize a different trait: agreeableness. In situations with high levels of uncertainty, agreeableness has shown itself to be an asset, according to a new study published in Collective Intelligence. All study participants took a 242-question personality assessment, which recorded how much of each of the Big Five personality traits they might have. The Big Five personality traits are: NeuroticismExtraversionOpennessConscientiousnessAgreeableness Neuroticism decreases team performance, according to the study, especially when uncertainty is involved in the group task. Past research on agreeableness, though, has shown the trait to be "mostly irrelevant" to completing tasks, Peterson says.
Persons: Lean, agreeableness, Randall Peterson, Peterson, It's Organizations: Collective Intelligence, London School of Business
"I want to take a beat and decide how I'm going to live my life," Pena, 37, told Insider. "People now have more freedom to hop in and out of the labor market," she told Insider. Wren Taylor, 35, enjoyed her summer of funemployment last year after being laid off from her corporate marketing job. "Their comments affirmed that I wasn't wasting my time," she told Insider. During job interviews, she said that all she could think about was the freedom she'd lose by going back to a traditional job.
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