Forscher vermuten, dass der Wunsch nach Aufmerksamkeit und Kontrolle dazu führt, dass NarzisstInnen lieber persönlich arbeiten Warum narzisstische Führungskräfte sich der Fernarbeit widersetzen

Highlights from the news article:

>As more employees are being ordered back into the office full time, new research suggests the rationale may be more about bosses‘ desire for power and status than productivity.
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>A paper published this month from researchers at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania argues that leaders who display stronger narcissistic qualities are more likely to dislike remote work.
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>The researchers took a multipronged approach to address the question of why some leaders resist remote work and why. It included reviewing public company reports for indicators of narcissism in CEOs, their public comments on remote work, personality surveys, and an online experiment that tested the relationship between resistance to remote work and leaders‘ desire for power and status.
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>Across their research, authors of the paper say leaders‘ narcissism was associated with greater resistance to remote work.
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>“These results underscore that resistance to remote work has social as well as individual roots,“ says the paper. „… our research accentuates that opposition to virtual work arrangements is more self-centered than previous research has recognized.“
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>The researchers hypothesize that narcissists‘ desire for attention, affirmation and control makes them more likely to favour in-person work because it „offers richer channels for controlling and commanding reverence from employees.“
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>Sylvia Fuller, a labour markets expert and sociology professor at the University of British Columbia, said the new research highlights that employers may have personal reasons for wanting their workers back in the office five days a week, beyond the good of their organization.
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>“We tend to really look at employees and think employees have the personal motivations of wanting better work-life balance or wanting shorter commutes and so forth,“ she said.
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>“And what [the research] really highlights is that leaders are also, to some extent, potentially motivated by these interpersonal or personal kinds of motivations, and that this might help explain why we’re seeing this kind of push towards forcing employees back to the office.“

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Research link:

[Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597826000300)

Abstract:

>Leaders have displayed diverging reactions to remote work, with some supporting it and others resisting it. Surprisingly little research has examined the personality roots of leader opposition to virtual work. Integrating the extended agency model of narcissism with media richness theory, we hypothesize that narcissistic leaders resist remote work because it threatens their motivations for power and status. In Study 1, an archival analysis of 259 Fortune 500 CEOs, unobtrusive measures of narcissism via photo size, signature size, and relative compensation predicted greater resistance to remote work in public statements early in the COVID-19 pandemic. This relationship was partially explained by exploratory proxies for narcissistic leaders’ power and status motivations, contingent on their industry not depending on frontline workers. Study 2, a preregistered three-wave survey with 359 leaders, constructively replicated and extended these results. Leader narcissism predicted resistance to remote work, mediated by power and status motivations—even after controlling for trust, the Big Five, and the remaining Dark Triad traits. In Study 3, a preregistered experiment with 546 leaders, manipulating state narcissism evoked resistance to remote work via power but not status motivation. Our findings extend knowledge about remote work and narcissistic leadership.

Explains why return to office is being pushed by assholes that enjoy micromanaging others.

Are these narcissists or just extroverts?

Explains my manager trying to ignore my reasonable adjustment to wfh and force me back into the office

Part of this is why my default is remote work. It’s one thing about Narcs, I don’t really care tbh. It’s the micromanaging that makes performance worse than better that irks me the most. Like stay in your own lane, if I bring the experience to the table which is verified via interview process (I’m assuming theyre doing this).

Then there’s little reason to think I need to have someone trying to control every aspect of what I do, how I do it (<– this is the crux of the problem, I’m not an emulator, it wont go perfectly like anyone wants it to since we al tend to view approaches differently even among leadership.) then going on punishment sprees to try and regulate my work ethic which was never a problem to begin with.

I think WFH is important. At the same time ai think it also comes at a social cost. And I get there’s people with bad faith trying to get people back in the office. But the office also existed and exists because it helps. Human connection is an important part of working with people, and chatting over video just doesn’t do it.

The simple argument I’ve been making is that no one is celebrating their birthday with friends on Zoom. And there’s a reason for that. And whatever that reason is, it’s a part of the benefit of working in an office. You develop closer relationships, possibly foster a stronger sense of trust, and all the other residual benefits.

The issue is when an office is used to control people, instead of help them work together. And the need for WFH makes sense especially with how little time you have outside of work these days. But to imply that only controlling narcissists want an office isn’t honest either.

Meanwhile I’m desperate for a job where someone tells me to do something and then fucks off until I’m done doing it