Adams, an American psychologist, has a theory of fairness: people's work motivation is not only influenced by their absolute remuneration, but also by their relative remuneration. People will consciously or unconsciously compare their labor and remuneration with others. If they feel unreasonable, they will feel unfair.
In the workplace, there are many such situations:
For example, there is such a thing:
Xiao Wang worked in a magazine and finally became the editorial director. He felt that he could relax a little and sit in an independent office listening to music and reading manuscripts. Unexpectedly, he is busier than before, and there is always endless work waiting for him.
One day, he passed in front of the office of the director of the distribution department and found someone sitting on the sofa, crossing his legs, brushing Tik Tok there, with steaming tea on the coffee table in front.
Xiao Wang thinks that the director of the distribution department may be too tired, have no rest, and have no heart.
However, a month later, Xiao Wang found that every time he passed by the door, either someone was playing, or someone was drinking tea, occasionally making phone calls, mostly drinking tea and playing mobile phones, and several times he saw someone playing games.
Xiao Wang is unbalanced now. Why should I work so hard, but he is so carefree?
Xiao Wang couldn't help it. He went to complain to the magazine editor.
The editor-in-chief is in distress situation: "You see people are idle. You don't know that in order to open channels for magazines last year, people went to major cities all over the country. It is also common to eat and live on the train. They go home few days a year. After the channel was opened this year, his business was reduced. I don't envy you. When people are outside in the sun, you don't know how comfortable it is to sit in the office and drink coffee and read the manuscript. "
Xiao Wang didn't see the hardships of others, so he felt unfair. He was very wronged. This is a little urgent!
Many people envy other people's power and generous treatment, but they don't know that they earned it hard. They just stand on the same level as others and ask for the same treatment as others ... many newcomers just come to ask for the same treatment as old employees. Shouldn't they ask why first and then why? Also, unknown so wants to find a balance when he sees some small interests, but some things are internal.
Xiao Li is the director of a company, a junior in middle level. By chance, she heard that one of her logistics staff, Xiao Zhao, could actually reimburse the mobile phone fee, which made her very angry, because she had never enjoyed any other treatment from the company except her salary. Xiao Zhao sits in the office every day. How can there be a telephone subsidy?
She went to the boss and told him about it. The boss listened: "how can the logistics staff have telephone subsidies?" You must be mistaken! I'll look into it and talk about you later. "
However, Xiao Li waited for two months and didn't see the boss reply.
When Xiao Li told some friends that he wanted to talk to the boss, one of Xiao Li's friends secretly said to her, "Stop fooling around. My financial staff said that Xiao Zhao's telephone subsidy was not given to Xiao Zhao at all. It is the boss's little girlfriend. She is afraid that the boss will know and hang it under the name of Xiao Zhao. "
Xiao Li broke out in a cold sweat, but fortunately he didn't go to the boss.
Speaking of this story, I remembered what happened in my previous company a few years ago.
At that time, I jumped into that company, and the boss surnamed Wang was ten years older than me. At that time, Wang Ge bought a house and settled in Beijing, brought an account, and had a complete wife and children. It can be said that he has a happy life and a successful career.
At that time, Wang Ge told me that our department did separate accounting and paid dividends according to a certain proportion, but we had to share some public expenses of the warehouse, including the rent and the loss of the warehouse car.
I must be very concerned about my own interests. After three months, I found that the rent is fixed and will not change much. But the cars in the warehouse break down every month, and there is a lot of gas money every month. This is a little abnormal. The financial staff came to me to sign for confirmation. I don't agree, so I called the supervisor of the warehouse and asked him to explain it to me.
At first, he faltered, but I questioned him: "The car in your warehouse breaks down every month, which is enough for you to buy a new car for a year, and your gas bill." We have a record of how many goods you sent. It can be several kilometers, enough for you to run back and forth. "
Later, he was willing to tell the truth: "Dude, let me tell you the truth. This is all given to me by friends in Wang Ge, special friends, you know. "
I really want to smash the keyboard, but fortunately I didn't bother the boss. Think about it, forget it, there is no need to trouble the boss when there is not much money.
So, when you feel that the leader or the company is unfair, I will give you three suggestions:
(1) Don't expect the leader to make a bowl of water even. Leadership must be different from personal relationships. Leaders must have personal preferences and emotions. Don't care too much about petty profits. Leaders reuse old employees, and leaders talk and laugh with individual employees ... You must understand human nature, leaders are human beings, and you also have people you like and dislike, even parents, who care about several children to varying degrees. Therefore, don't ask for fairness in everything, it can only make leaders feel.
(2) Don't question the "fairness" of the company and leaders at will. Just like the previous story, some things may be mixed with the private affairs of the boss or leader, and individual employees may be helping the boss with some private affairs. Everyone knows but no one comes forward, so don't rush up, read more, listen more and ask more questions.
(3) Before asking for fairness, let yourself appreciate it and have a certain right to speak. Many people don't look at their contribution to the company and don't know their value and positioning. They want this from the company, that from the leaders, find a balance for themselves from their colleagues and ask for various benefits. But many times, I couldn't get a reply from the leader, and I was too embarrassed to stay, so I jumped ship and left. After all, I still don't know my own value and position. When you really have a big role, the boss will take the initiative to give you a promotion and a raise. Even if you sneeze, he will worry about your health. So, don't worry about asking for a little fairness, as long as the big aspects, such as promotion mechanism and reward system, are treated equally with leaders, and don't pay too much attention to the small aspects. Can't take it away, only take it away. As long as you keep appreciating, unfair things will not happen to you. In the final analysis, the workplace is also related to reality and interests, as are bosses and leaders.