Cynicism, hypocrisy and flattery: the winning cocktail of French to succeed in business – Challenges.fr

Obviously you know in all your openspace. Flatterers, selfish, competent, hypocritical or even sincere. And then all the other behaviors, and sometimes all at once depending on the situation. 53% of French respondents say they “do anything to succeed,” according to the Opinion Way survey for Tissot Editions. This absolute cynicism, or burning ambition is (logically?) Much more prevalent among 18-24 year olds, where the rate reaches 75%. The most virtuous employees work elsewhere in the public where only 43% are “desperate to succeed.” Far from being a surprise for Ronan Chastellier sociologist. “The company is not a world of Care Bears Do not listen to the reassuring speech from human resources services.”

And the strategies vary to achieve the desired objective. 53% employees are willing to constantly communicate their accomplishments, while 41% are to appear for the good student permanently and 22% are willing to lose any critical sense to “acquiesce to all ideas for your boss, even if -ci are irrelevant. ” “I participated in a study of friendship in corporate business remembers the sociologist. These behaviors are juxtaposed with actually more violent attitudes very opportunistic and unscrupulous where the end justifies the means.”

9% are willing to sleep for success

Some employees are also willing to “not tell exactly the truth to their colleagues (30%)” or their superiors (29%). Or to withhold information for 25% of them. The grand prize went to 9% who bluntly declare their readiness to “sleep” to succeed. As many do not see any problem with “spreading rumors about their rivals.” Double (18%) use their charms to succeed. Note that men are twice more prone than women to succeed Bedrooms (13% against 6% for the female population).

It is a chilling portrait of the universe in business that stands this study. Only 63% of them say that they trust their colleagues when 77% say they

are shameless to achieve their professional ambitions. “This situation is not catastrophic analysis Ronan Chastellier. Employees are just desperate to succeed. The relationship to truth is fully determined and pervasive manipulation. Disparage fresh, spreading rumors about his rivals, it exists. It enough to have worked a minimum in any business to notice. This is even minus I think the outcome of the study. the primitive man is at work in the company with a real desire to harm and often feigned generosity. “

The qualities gallery needed to please puzzling: flattery (43%), selfishness (38%), hypocrisy (35%), lying (32%) and slander (24%). Competence is however a place in the top three (36%) but the consideration of the public interest (20%) and sincerity (14%) rank close. The only glimmer of hope for the sociologist: “the rules of etiquette make things more pleasant The slaps on the shoulder and the widespread smile to preserve a presentable facade.”

Methods : the survey was conducted by Opinion about 1,060 employees from a sample of 2,067 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over. The sample was constituted under the quota method, with regard of gender, age, socio-professional category of size of town and region of residence. The interviews were conducted online from April 6 to 14, 2016.
margins of uncertainty for this poll are 1.5 to 3 percentage points more for a sample of 1,000 respondents.