Is Competition between Employees a Good Idea?

What is it about?

We argue that HR often seeks to motivate employees by pitching them into a competition eg. through forced rankings or the winner takes it all incentives. We then open the black box and show how competition can effect employees emotions and coginitions: often competition has more negative effects than positive. We then discuss how "good", truly inspiring competition would have to look like.

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Why is it important?

Because unhealthy competition creates costly side effects: it makes employees miserable and has a negative effect on performance.