Are you working in a company? How is the company work culture? Does your manager want to have perfectionism all the time? Working with them is a challenging task, isn’t it? A committed person towards work can give impeccable results, that’s why more and more companies are keenly interested in creating perfectionism at the office. In the first place, it should not be a nightmare to the employees.
However, if you have a job who is looking at perfectionism in your work, it makes the work stressful. As a matter of fact, They often lay emphasis on the details that are not relevant to the project or work in hand.
This causes to miss any important deadlines, by working on the same thing again and again. Perfectionists often find faults and overly critical about their work and work of their employees. They concentrate on the work which is not done, rather than accomplishments.
Illustration of perfectionism
First, they have to know the difference between perfect and possible job. This can be illustrated with an example in a better way. Let’s assume you have a presentation after 30 minutes. But you don’t feel good enough, even though you reviewed it for five minutes. You may feel that the images and graphs might be missing. What about the grammatical errors. Though it’s perfect your thinking can lead to miss the deadline. Now your boss has to review it once again at the last minute. This makes you are your boss to be stressed.
Not to mention, but stressed work always lands in a bad result.
Additionally, there is a presentation which you submitted on time and got good remarks.
Still, you end-up worrying all through the day even after sending it. You missed something and it doesn’t look nice. This is common for you for every job you take up. In the end, you deal with headaches, stomachaches and anxiety.
This sounds familiar, right? You face it daily with your boss.
Types of perfectionists
Similarly, if your’s a corporate office and have worked with many managers, you might have faced these situations many times right? But according to studies, there are three types of perfectionists
Socially-prescribed perfectionists are the one who criticises themselves and is stressed all the time. They always have a worry that others might reject them. Influenced by external factors like family, friends and more, they are always anxious, and self-doubt with low confidence.
Other-oriented perfectionists are the one who gives high regards to other person and is more critical and judgemental. It becomes very hard to create a working relationship with these bosses.
Self-oriented perfectionists are conscientious and organized. They set higher goals for themselves from a professional and personal front. It is mostly related to adaptive traits and attitudes and correlated with the highest productivity and success. Besides, this includes assertiveness and resourcefulness and has higher positive emotion and motivation.
Perfectionism is the enemy of good work
As said by French philosopher Voltaire, being perfect is the enemy of good. This the hardest lesson to learn as it comes with a bang of fear, and not being good. If you concentrate on doing good also it doesn’t come as you will develop self-doubt gradually and start comparing yourself with others. While starting your career decide whether you want to be perfect or being recognized.
In reality, no one is perfect and striving for one leads to dangerous endeavours. Although perfectionism is good on the surface, it may lead to a negative impact. Productivity, employee retention and relation, efficiency and effectiveness will largely impact the organization. Moreover, perfectionism has an impact on overall well-being and health.
To sum it up
Perfectionists are the one who needs everything right. They are the one who spends more times doing the same old work again and again. These type of bosses drive nuts among their employees. While employees work according to their high standards, oftentimes they suffer as there will be no appreciation from the manager. Moreover, When perfectionism is ruling the organization, it brings their close friends like depression, anxiety and anger along. This creates unrest among all the other employees also.
