The perfect colleague? Multidimensional perfectionism and indicators of social disconnection in the workplace

Perfectionism and its role in depressive disorders.

“…Unfortunately for the hypothetical self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionists described in the vignettes, participants tended to rate them as significantly less desirable dating partners relative to nonperfectionists. This finding was replicated conceptually by Kleszewski and Otto (2020), who asked adult employees who worked in teams to rate the extent to which they would like to work with hypothetical colleagues with and without perfectionism. Results showed that participants tended to rate vignettes describing self-oriented, other-oriented, and socially prescribed perfectionists significantly lower on social skills and desirability as a coworker than nonperfectionists.…”

“Perfect Leader, Perfect Leadership?” Linking Leaders’ Perfectionism to Monitoring, Transformational, and Servant Leadership Behavior

“…The PSDM is a valuable framework that has been applied to investigate interpersonal consequences of perfectionism in several contexts, such as private conflicts (Mackinnon et al, 2012) or social exclusion and workplace conflicts (Kleszewski and Otto, 2020). In the present work, we aim to apply the core assumptions of the model concerning perfectionism, rigid cognitions, and adverse social interactions to the context of leadership behavior.…”

“…Further, we have extended the well-established PSDM with its core assumptions concerning perfectionism and adverse social interactions to the context of leadership and leader behavior, which demonstrates the broad applicability of the model. Whereas research to date has explored perfectionism and the PSDM in relationships between people of the same level (e.g., colleagues; Kleszewski and Otto, 2020), the relationship between leaders and their followers is characterized by a hierarchical structure and thus a power difference. Accordingly, our research contributes to the perfectionism literature by exploring the link between perfectionism in a person higher in an organizational hierarchy and behavior that primarily affects people who are lower in the hierarchy and thus depend on this perfectionistic person.…”

“…Yet, as underscored in our research, there are positive consequences of self-oriented leaders' perfectionism on peoplecentered leadership that would be highly valued in organizations; thus, calling simply for a reduction of perfectionism may fall short. Notably, a recent study has found that if employees could choose a colleague to work with, then the selected person would not be a perfectionist at all because of the potentially negative consequences on team climate (Kleszewski and Otto, 2020). Whether subordinates would also prefer non-perfectionistic leaders due to unrealistically high expectations is only speculation.…”

Enhancing Job Satisfaction Through Colleague Support and Communication

“…Colleague support is one of the social support given by organization and its described as an interpersonal exchange where an individual assists other individuals within organization [13]. Social support is comfort, attention, appreciation, or other forms of assistance that individuals receive from others or groups [14] Social support is an act that helps by involving emotions, providing information, material assistance, and positive assessments of individuals in dealing with their problems [15]. Colleague support is a positive feeling, liking, trust, and attention from others in the work life of the individual concerned, recognition, one's trust, and direct assistance in certain forms [16].…”