Carol Forsloff - Pride goeth before a fall," a sage once said, and research proves this right, telling us that a sense of entitlement is epidemic and that's what causes conflicts.
Dr. Shock, a physician who lists both M.D. and Ph.D. credentials, tells us academic and intellectual dishonesty are caused by narcissism. It is characterized by the following, Dr. Shock points out:
Research out of the University of New Hampshire indicates that workers who have a sense of entitlement and want preferential treatment usually get into conflicts more often than other workers. This seems to be on the rise and occur more with younger than older workers.
Paul Harvey, assistant professor of management at the University of New Hampshire, led the team in making a study of this phenomenon, writing about research results recently in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. The article is entitled, “An empirical examination of the role of attributions in psychological entitlement and its outcomes.”
Studies indicate that those who want favoritism tend to blame others when things go wrong and demonstrate self-serving attributes. They often have problems with supervisors and tend to thrive in workplaces where the rules are in flux or are ambiguous.
Entitlement is often considered a component of narcissism. People with this attitude believe they are entitled to rewards that are out of line with their productions, talents or behaviors. Those involved in this study suggest that employers screen job applicants for these traits prior to hire.
In 2007 another paper was presented at the University of Indiana that discussed the characteristics of the workplace narcissist and offered suggestions for coping. The paper observed that there are more narcissists than there are leadership positions ready to be filled. There were five coping strategies the researcher found were used to deal with narcissists in the workplace that included not responding, trying to befriend the person, confronting the narcissist, quitting one’s job and going to management. Only the latter two were found to be effective.
Some researchers believe we are experiencing a narcissism epidemic. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell say in their new book The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement that we are increasingly becoming a nation of narcissistic, self indulgent people. This characteristic is exploding rapidly among college students, especially females, these writers found. They say that narcissism has grown rapidly because we are constantly being told by talk shows that we need to love ourselves, because the world is becoming very competitive to the point of being cutthroat. The writers also maintain that this characteristic contributed to the economic crisis with everyone wanting too much too soon.
A representative sample of 35,000 Americans last summer was used to determine the presence of or treatment for NPD (narcissistic personality disorder) revealed that 6% of those surveyed had received treatment for it some time in their lives. That contrasts with 3% of those over age 65, or twice the rate for older persons.
So when older people say to younger ones, “You’re spoiled and want too much that you haven’t earned” they may be right, according to these studies.
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- "Plagiarism: The adoption or reproduction of original creations of another author (person, collective, organization, community or other type of author, including anonymous authors) without due acknowledgment.
- Fabrication: The falsification of data, information, or citations in any formal academic exercise.
- Deception: Providing false information to an instructor concerning a formal academic exercise—e.g., giving a false excuse for missing a deadline or falsely claiming to have submitted work."
Research out of the University of New Hampshire indicates that workers who have a sense of entitlement and want preferential treatment usually get into conflicts more often than other workers. This seems to be on the rise and occur more with younger than older workers.
Paul Harvey, assistant professor of management at the University of New Hampshire, led the team in making a study of this phenomenon, writing about research results recently in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. The article is entitled, “An empirical examination of the role of attributions in psychological entitlement and its outcomes.”
Studies indicate that those who want favoritism tend to blame others when things go wrong and demonstrate self-serving attributes. They often have problems with supervisors and tend to thrive in workplaces where the rules are in flux or are ambiguous.
Entitlement is often considered a component of narcissism. People with this attitude believe they are entitled to rewards that are out of line with their productions, talents or behaviors. Those involved in this study suggest that employers screen job applicants for these traits prior to hire.
In 2007 another paper was presented at the University of Indiana that discussed the characteristics of the workplace narcissist and offered suggestions for coping. The paper observed that there are more narcissists than there are leadership positions ready to be filled. There were five coping strategies the researcher found were used to deal with narcissists in the workplace that included not responding, trying to befriend the person, confronting the narcissist, quitting one’s job and going to management. Only the latter two were found to be effective.
Some researchers believe we are experiencing a narcissism epidemic. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell say in their new book The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement that we are increasingly becoming a nation of narcissistic, self indulgent people. This characteristic is exploding rapidly among college students, especially females, these writers found. They say that narcissism has grown rapidly because we are constantly being told by talk shows that we need to love ourselves, because the world is becoming very competitive to the point of being cutthroat. The writers also maintain that this characteristic contributed to the economic crisis with everyone wanting too much too soon.
A representative sample of 35,000 Americans last summer was used to determine the presence of or treatment for NPD (narcissistic personality disorder) revealed that 6% of those surveyed had received treatment for it some time in their lives. That contrasts with 3% of those over age 65, or twice the rate for older persons.
So when older people say to younger ones, “You’re spoiled and want too much that you haven’t earned” they may be right, according to these studies.
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