Employee Rivalry: Five Tips for Managing Dueling Staffers

Jaclyn Crawford Foresight, Guest Post, Management Leave a Comment

Troubles at work? Consider these steps toward maintaining office harmony. Child Psychiatrist David Levy introduced the term “sibling rivalry” in 1941. Self-explanatory in its terminology, the concept of sibling rivalry is easy to grasp. The mechanism of employee rivalry works essentially the same way, with the employees in a competitive relationship, striving for greater approval from their employer or manager. …