3 scientific explanation as to where are the poor performers

There is a rule of thumb, which states that each company 20% of employees perform 80% of the work. This means that the remaining 80% being paid for nothing.

Why is this happening? Science says that ...

1. Our brain is not designed to mnogozadachnostVy at work? Try to count the number of windows open on your desktop. Count each browser tab separately. Mail, a couple of Office-documents, Skype, Facebook, some patience ... It is possible that from time to time come again, and answer the phone.

Doing several things simultaneously - the inevitable fate of almost every person in the world today, is not it? Science thinks otherwise.

Scientists say that most of us multitasking physically can not. Therefore, the brain is forced to very quickly switch from one subject to another. The volume of work at the same time is divided into small segments, and you will become more difficult to focus on any one problem enough attention to successfully cope with it.

The specialists at Stanford University have found that the longer we practice in the implementation of several tasks simultaneously, the worse it is reflected in our work. During one of the experiments, the researchers asked participants to focus on the red rectangle on the computer screen and to track changes in their location. After that, the screen was filled with others who do not have any significance geometric shapes.

Those people who in ordinary life are used to solve problems consistently coped with the task easy, but "experienced mnogozadachnikam" turned out not afford to ignore irrelevant information, they will inevitably be distracted and have failed the test.

That is, the more you get used to perform multiple things at once, the worse they have obtained.

2. We often misjudge the information that we receive by e-pochteEsli you have never had any trouble related to the misinterpretation of emails, then this can only be two explanations:

You never used e-mail; You just did not notice the confusion when it happened. Most of you can clearly remember a single case when e-mail was interpreted completely wrong, because your nods and winks in the text is not displayed. Or because the recipient to your message lay down such intonation, which you could not even think.

The participants of a scientific experiment was commissioned to write a message that seemed to them ridiculous. Then the readers of this report were asked to rate on 10-point scale, how much fun they are received text. While the sender evaluated their letters of 7, 27 points, recipients exhibited an average score of 3, 55.

But the biggest problem arises with irony. During another study, only 54 percent of people able to grasp the ironic tone of the letter. So before you send a colleague a message about what you do to him if he does not return your stapler, keep in mind that the recipient of your playful threat can take it at face value.

3. We are not able to assess the degree of self-kompetentnostiVy sure everything myself understand. Who else better to know all your secrets, weaknesses, talents and faults? You spend with yourself every day. And if the boss will call you unprofessional, your first reaction is to wonder - where he is the wrong idea about you. Whether you pronounce the it out loud or not, but some part of you would take it this way: I do not understand!

But science says otherwise.

During the survey people were asked to assess their professional qualities in comparison with colleagues and got an unexpected result: almost no one pleaded even less competent in something else.

A survey among the teachers of the college showed that 94 percent of them evaluate their work as "above average". After another study found that 70 percent of students evaluated "above average" their leadership skills. But it can not be higher than the average - it's just physically impossible. Then the "average" will cease to be average.

This trend exists in all professional fields, caused by so-called "illusory superiority." Do you think a person can get out one job after another and still consider myself a good professional, than those "below average"? There is an explanation that psychologists called "Dunning-Kruger effect." It lies in the fact that "people who have a low level of qualification, making erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate decisions, but are not able to realize his mistakes because of their low level of qualification».

That is an incompetent person, even the level of their own incompetence are not able to adequately assess. And happy lives with indestructible faith in their professionalism "above average».

via factroom.ru