Another reason is that narcissists have no empathy, which definitely harm their social skills, making them less competitive in a company. Narcissists are unwilling or unable to care for other people’s feelings. Therefore, they cannot build reliable interpersonal relationships with customers since no one like to work with someone who cannot identify the needs of others. People have poor social skills are less likely to be chose as leaders in a company. In the article “Empathy in intimate relationships: The role of positive illusions”, Pieternel Dijkstra’ s study shows that: “the present study found relatively strong, positive correlations between both partners’ empathy scores and relationship quality and adjustment” (481). Relationship quality
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Crosby states that: “Relationship quality, as measured in our study, had a significant influence on the customer's anticipation of future interaction with the salesperson” (69). If salesmen have good relationships with the customers, they can keep their customers. Nevertheless, narcissists are weak in social skills; they do not know how to form good relationships with customers since they lack empathy. Therefore, narcissists could not attract many customers for their companies. Crosby also opinions that: “When hiring sales personnel, marketing and sales managers can screen for the social abilities that facilitate establishing and maintaining long-term interpersonal relationships” (77). Nowadays, companies all want to hire people who can have good social skills so that they can attract more customers. In this way, narcissists will be hard to compete with those who have good social skills since they lack empathy, which make them hard to get hired or promoted in a company. Therefore, having no empathy would surely make narcissists less likely to succeed since we need to depend on relationships …show more content…
The companies in today’s society require unity and harmony. It emphasizes on teamwork. Therefore, every single employee should be the part of a whole. However, narcissists like to be in the limelight, and take all glory and admiration from others, which is against the principle of today’ s company. Thus, if they are in a team where honor is placed on the whole, they would not try hard because they don’t care about the team but only themselves, which make them hard to get promoted in a company. Twenge asserts that “When individual performance was recognized by putting each person’s name on the board with his or her number of creative uses, narcissists performed very well. When the credit went only to their group, however, narcissists didn’t try very hard and performed fairly poorly” (47). Narcissist, a selfish person, is only concerned about their own success. They like to work independently so that they can get all the credit. However, it is hard to finish a task alone, people need to corporate with each other in a comapny. When narcissists are in a team, there is no way they can take all the credit so they rather not try hard. In this way, their teammates would not like to work with narcissists and the boss would also think less of them. Therefore, the lack of effort in a team will make narcissists less likely to get promoted in a
Crosby states that: “Relationship quality, as measured in our study, had a significant influence on the customer's anticipation of future interaction with the salesperson” (69). If salesmen have good relationships with the customers, they can keep their customers. Nevertheless, narcissists are weak in social skills; they do not know how to form good relationships with customers since they lack empathy. Therefore, narcissists could not attract many customers for their companies. Crosby also opinions that: “When hiring sales personnel, marketing and sales managers can screen for the social abilities that facilitate establishing and maintaining long-term interpersonal relationships” (77). Nowadays, companies all want to hire people who can have good social skills so that they can attract more customers. In this way, narcissists will be hard to compete with those who have good social skills since they lack empathy, which make them hard to get hired or promoted in a company. Therefore, having no empathy would surely make narcissists less likely to succeed since we need to depend on relationships …show more content…
The companies in today’s society require unity and harmony. It emphasizes on teamwork. Therefore, every single employee should be the part of a whole. However, narcissists like to be in the limelight, and take all glory and admiration from others, which is against the principle of today’ s company. Thus, if they are in a team where honor is placed on the whole, they would not try hard because they don’t care about the team but only themselves, which make them hard to get promoted in a company. Twenge asserts that “When individual performance was recognized by putting each person’s name on the board with his or her number of creative uses, narcissists performed very well. When the credit went only to their group, however, narcissists didn’t try very hard and performed fairly poorly” (47). Narcissist, a selfish person, is only concerned about their own success. They like to work independently so that they can get all the credit. However, it is hard to finish a task alone, people need to corporate with each other in a comapny. When narcissists are in a team, there is no way they can take all the credit so they rather not try hard. In this way, their teammates would not like to work with narcissists and the boss would also think less of them. Therefore, the lack of effort in a team will make narcissists less likely to get promoted in a