The Effects of Ingratiation on Employee Career Success

Sakinah Mat Zin, Nazlin Emieza Ngah, Ismail Rusnah, Nur Hafizah Ahmad Tajuddin, Iskandar Hasan Tan Abdullah, Asri Salleh

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In an organization, employees have to be especially witty to influence their superiors and gain compliance. Building a better working relationship with their superiors would guarantee lots of perquisites, such as promotion, easier interactions and bigger bonuses. According to scholars and researchers, use of appropriate upward influence strategies contributes to the smooth functioning of the organization and may also affect human resource decisions. Understanding upward influence is crucial because such behavior affects both individual and organizational effectiveness. It was presumed that a superior would allocate more rewards to an ingratiating subordinate. When the superior was potentially opened to influence, subordinates tried to impress him/her by presenting themselves to be strong and competent. Ingratiation tactic is believed to be employed by employees in organizations in order to obtain employers’ approval and receive favorable consequences. Enlightened by a plethora of researches on influence, this paper investigates the effects of subordinates' ingratiatory behaviors on their career success. Keywords: Ingratiation; Employees; Impression Management; Career Success; SubordinateRésumé: Dans une organisation, les employés doivent être particulièrement spirituels pour influencer leurs supérieurs et obtenir leur agrément. Construire une meilleure relation de travail avec leurs supérieurs pourraient leur garantir beaucoup d'avantages, tels que la promotion, des interactions plus faciles et des bonus plus importants. Selon les experts et les chercheurs, l'utilisation des stratégies d'influence appropriées contribue au bon fonctionnement de l'organisation et peut également influer sur les décisions des ressources humaines. Comprendre cette influence est crucial, car un tel comportement affecte à la fois l'efficacité individuelle et l'efficacité organisationnelle. Il est présumé que le supérieur hiérarchique serait allouer davantage de récompenses à un subordonné insinuant. Lorsque le supérieur est potentiellement ouvert aux influences, des subordonnés tentent de l'impressionner en se présentant à être forts et compétents. La tactique de bonnes grâces est censée être utilisée par les employés dans les organisations afin d'obtenir l'approbation de l'employeur et de recevoir des conséquences favorables. Eclairé par une pléthore de recherches sur l'influence, cet article étudie les effets des comportements insinuants des subordonnés sur leur réussite professionnelle.Mots-clés: flatteries; employés; gestion de l'impression; réussite professionnelle; subordonnés

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.css.1923669720100606.018

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