If you’re among the 93% of people who struggle with perfectionism at work, new research suggests that your experience may depend less on your own high standards and more on whether those standards meet your supervisor’s expectations. Researchers from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business, writing in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, have found that whether perfectionism helps or harms employees depends largely on whether employees’ personal standards align with their supervisors’ expectations.
If you’re a perfectionist at work, your boss’s expectations may matter more than your own, research finds
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