Abstract
In today competitive environment, sycophantic behaviour played in every organisation significant role and the organisation environment also influenced by this behaviour. If we go into deep discussion, we realize as well that this behaviour is behaviour to get competitive advantage for personal growth. It is also observed that, performance of organisation depends upon the surrounding as read in many HRM books that “Good environment leads to good performance of any companies”. Service industry required team spirit for increasing performance level and for that behaviour is generally being adopted by the employees to please their bosses. Some questions arise like: 1) what does sycophancy means? 2) How does it influence the environment? And does have positive impact on employee Performance? To do Oiling and battering to their bosses to get promotion and good place in the industry is known as sycophancy. According Ekong and Essien, the sycophantic groups are those who involve more in intrigues, lying about others to cause confusion-official liar and those who pretend to be the adviser to the political leader. But their false praise performance and outputs may vary. The above matter can be seen in private sector as well in public or government sector also at some extent. But if we talk about government sector, Jhatial found in his study that 80% of respondents in government sector agreed that connection or sifarish, references, sycophancy and cronyism play significant role in HRM decision making process whereas only 20% of respondents found that it have done on merit based decision.
Highlights
Meaning of sycophancySycophancy means flattery which is very obedient, or it is an indication of deference to another to gain advantage, and to an excessive or servile degree
According to Fasahnu [5], sycophancy behaviour is a situation which may be created by a medium continues to praise government or individuals despite ills which might be weakness or incompetence in office [6]
This study investigated that sifarish or connection affects the decisions like recruitment, selection and promotions while developing functions of HRM in private sector
Summary
Sycophancy means flattery which is very obedient, or it is an indication of deference to another to gain advantage, and to an excessive or servile degree. A sycophant is a person who tries to win favor from wealthy or influential people by flattering them only to again selfadvantage. Sycophantic person acts towards someone powerful in order to gain advantage either in the form of promotion or good position in the industry [1,2]. Sycophant is a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favour by flattering influential people. Earlier sycophantic behaviour begins in the educational system, but criticism is never supported by institutions from the starting. A sycophant is “the one who always seeks favour by flattering and praising people of wealth or influence them” according to Webster’s New World Dictionary. It is clear that Sycophants do not make any kind of waves or criticisms
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