Are your employees unwilling to help each other? It’s because of the economic downturn

SINGAPORE (Aug 30): A research from Singapore Management University (SMU) and INSEAD has shown that employees who extend help to their colleagues at work would be less likely to continue when there are signs that the economy is slowing down.

The idea behind that behaviour lies in the belief that if one person is more successful within the company, then it would be less likely for everyone else to be successful.

That behaviour is coined the “zero-sum construal of success” by Marko Pitesa, the associate professor for Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources at SMU, and Nina Sirola of INSEAD, in their research paper published in the Academy of Management Journal.

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