Group Competition According to Trikha (2012), “A little friendly competition with your co-workers can be the source of motivation as well as a natural impulse that you need to achieve great heights” (Competition among Co-Workers, par. 1). Competition in the workplace using work teams can ignite motivation to increase performance and productivity among employees. If the end goal is to outperform another coworker, you 'll likely get more done compared to the absence of competition at all. Earning acknowledged success can feel self- certifying. Before choosing competition as a part of the work environment two question must first be answered; "What will the employees get praised for and how will individuals be chosen for raises or bonuses or does everyone share in successes?" A competitive …show more content…
Competition in the workplace inspires quality and innovation. In addition to being more productive, competitive coworkers are also under constant pressure to perform in fresh and potentially healthier ways. Some may feel that workplace competition is the mother of innovation. Organized competitive settings tend to reward those that stand out from the rest. Many companies push competition by valuing who can deliver the most unique and efficient product or service. Merely doing your job well is not enough to stand out. To bring out the best, competition can encourage workers to go above and beyond to do their job more efficiently and enjoy doing it. When speaking competition in the workplace its best to ensure that the competition is welcomed and is founded on a friendly agenda in order to motivate employees. If competition is not built in a fun and friendly manner then fierce competition can lead to a stressful company culture. While it is possible to be good-natured, fierce competition opens up opportunities for negative feelings such as discouragement, resentment, mistrust, or envy. With that in mind engaging in competition in work teams rather than
There are people who are not as motivated, they are often referred to as the underachievers. However, once they have someone to compete with, they are more likely to become motivated to improve and excel. This is where competition serves as a healthy motivator. There is a friend who was exhausted of being constantly compared to his overachieving older brother. This caused him to start studying and working harder in order to become just as good as his brother. The situation showed how he did not need to bring down his older brother in order to be just as successful. Competition serves its purpose, when one finds themselves competing with themselves instead of their competitor. When one is competing with themselves, they are allowing themselves to grow and improve to become a better person. They do not have to compete with someone else, nor degrade others success in order to make their achievements seem exceptional.
When employees have a say in their roles in the workplace they are happier, healthier and more productive. People are social creatures and it is not surprising that working in a team environment can increase productivity, reduce boredom and complacency, while increasing respect and loyalty towards employers.
Competition is everywhere in our daily lives. It begins from the day we are born until the day we die. Competition is just another word for challenge.
With competition, people have incentive to improve. Last fall, my father had the idea for the two of us to have a competition and see who could do more sit-ups by the end of the year. This would be part of my offseason baseball training and his normal exercise. We were both doing hundreds of sit-ups a day, and I eventually won. In the end, we were both the winners because this was very good exercise for our body, which probably would not have been done without the competition. At the end of each of my basketball lessons, my coach and I would play a short game of one versus one. At first, he would always win. I grew tired of always losing to
Competition should not be enforced because it makes people feel too much stress and like winning is all that matters, makes the event too intense and no fun, and It makes people feel less skilled and lowers self-esteem. Competition does nothing but bring down a person and cause way too many problems in life. Winning and berating someone else is not all that matters and having fun in the event is.
The pressure can come from the need to make minimum wage money or a parent deciding on what their kids need to fulfill financially. When choosing something partaking interest in, they are content and adore what they do. Love for their work profession encourages a positive attitude and this is needed for productivity. When an employee loves what they do, they attain a constructive behavior. But, when productivity is sacrificed, it begins to suffer with negative employees who only work to make a piece of change. The only determination they pertain to is to increase their productivity in order to get more money, but in due time this makes them traumatic and hostile. Undesirable employees have no interest in the work, soon the satisfaction is hard for them to achieve, leading to insufficient motivation. The two major ways for employees to improve, productivity in their professional ranges is the choice of profession
Competition between peers makes people strive to try and be better than their opponents, and can be healthy or unhealthy depending on the competitors and their responses to the competition. Sometimes people see competition and face it head on like Gene when he is trying to become the “head of the class” (Knowles 24). It gets people to strive to be the best that they can be and whether they are successful or not they are better off than before. Even though Phineas was maimed it looked like he was going to end up getting a better educat...
There is a misconception that competition is bad, if a child can experience the thrill of winning and the disappointment of losing, they will be well equipped for the reality of life. Competition provides stimulation to achieve a goal; to have determination, to overcome challenges, to understand that hard work and commitment leads to a greater chance of success. Life is full of situations where there are winners and losers; getting a job; a sports game; not getting into a desired college. People need to learn how to cope with disappointment and then to look forward to the next opportunity to try again. Competition also teaches us to dig deep and find abilities we never knew we had. The pressure to win or succeed can often inspire more imaginative thinking and inspire us to develop additional
I found that much of my free time is spent socializing with friends and competing in numerous sports and hobbies. I found that much of my daily life revolves around competition, from playing collegian level soccer to video games with friends. Competition has always interested me from a very young age when I first begin playing soccer. However, I found there is a distinction between healthy competition and unhealthy competition within my own interests. Healthy competition was doing my best in order to advance and develop a skill or process. Conversely, Unhealthy competition was a sole focus on winning and a trap I have fallen into many times. In the work world today healthy competition can be a monumental tool used to engage and motivate employees. In class we have talked about a company called Nucor that has used competition within shifts to advance technology through innovation and increasing production. I believe my interest in competition and my competitive drive when instrumented in the right environment could be a huge motivator in the future
Ancient China has a number of sayings about competition, such as, “seeking great honor results in no honor at all”. Theodore Isaac Rubin, a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, explains in his essay, “Competition and Happiness” competition seldom brings out the best and often brings out the worst in people. He argues that competition is a form of projection in which the development of self is abandoned to beat the next fellow. Rubin believes that, “competition is a residual of a primitive past, and it is not a genetic residual” (312). In the past, competition was necessary for people had to compete in order to survive. Even though, people were conditioned to compete in the past, it is not pertinent anymore as it became another aspect in the modern day. Rubin further states, “people brought up this way feel lost…because they exist to compete and they’ve lost their raison d’être in the new situation” (312) Learning to compete with others is taught by an individual’s family and the individual forgets why he/she is competing as they only focus on beating their fellow mates. Competition produces anxiety which can interfere with learning and disassociates with one’s own body. It is not instinctual because it is taught and it damages people and creates stress in their life. Competition teaches people to give their worst while as they only focus on what their fellow mate is doing. I agree with Rubin that “competition limit people’s ability to lead happy and satisfying lives”, for I am assured that competition is destructive to children's self-esteem, it interferes with learning, sabotages relationships, and isn't necessary to have a good time.
This modern era is the era of competition and we all are here to do our best to survive. To prove our existence we all need to show that we have skills in our hand and we are here to make our mark. In an organization even to fit in, we need to stand out. There are some skills and competencies which help us survive in the organization and there are others which make us different. We need both to be an asset to the company.
“Survival of the fittest” is a notion that I firmly advocate. Competition brings out the best in people, and I am a very competitive person. Competitiveness whether with one's self, or with others arouses the desire to succeed. My mother has taught me that competing with yourself is even better than competing with others because you struggle to become the best person you can be, without settling for exceeding the limitations of others.
...t it is beneficial, healthy and provides a little competition. No one knows how much competition can drive a person, but a healthy competition between you and your peers can benefit you by creating innovative ideas and work ethic that are much required in this world.
Yes, it is to a certain extent. Competition is good for us as it challenges each individual. Without competition, there would be no standards and we would not know how to improve on areas we lack. In addition, we may not know where we stand, be it mentally, physically and academically. Different kinds of competition challenge us in different aspects and helps us to progress and move with times.
People have many misconceptions about conflict in the workplace. Not all workplace conflicts are bad, some organization even implement changes just too slightly stir things up; as a result employees are more productive. Covey, (1992) mentions seven things that will destroy us; wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion without sacrifice, and politics without principle. We must stand for what is right and it is the leader’s obligation to manage in all seven of these arenas including workplace