Given the many hours employees spend at work and the stress, anxiety, and pressure they face, building strong friendships is

essential in any workplace.

Although employees feel that friendships are what keep them going at work and help them overcome challenges, a large-scale study

A recent series of experiments at the University of Chicago found that these relationships can have unintended downsides, especially when there are

A friendship between an employee and their manager.

According to the research, managers feel they need to treat employees they are close friends with more strictly than other

الموظفين، ما يجعلهم أكثر عرضة للظلم حتى إذا كانوا يبذلون مجهودًا كبيرًا. 

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تهميش الأصدقاء

After a series of experiments, the researchers found that managers who have to make certain employee-related decisions, such as who Team should receive

When it comes to a bonus or promotion, they won’t think of their friend; they’ll give it to someone else with whom they have no personal relationship.

The study attributed this to managers’ or supervisors’ fear that people would accuse them of favoring their friends by giving them bonuses or promotions—even when the employee is skilled

at their job, outperforms their peers, and deserves it.

One of the study’s associate professors says the other employees will resent this person and unconsciously treat them very badly,

starting rumors about them, downplaying their abilities, and belittling their skills.

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Favoring Others Over Friends

In one experiment involving more than 200 managers, they were all told that one of their friends had performed better than one of the candidates for a promotion, but the decision

He has the authority to decide who gets promoted, based on merit and job performance.

As a result, most managers decided to promote the other person, even though their friends were more qualified and deserving, for fear of being accused of favoring their friends

at others’ expense.

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حساسية مُفرطة

Managers are particularly sensitive when they have to make a decision involving a friend and another employee. One study found that they often tend

to favor the other person over their friend, and consistently leave their friends off their list of priorities.

Employees, too, act with great caution and fear making mistakes in case they put their manager friend in an awkward position. This makes them less able to be creative and more

Vulnerable to pressure, they work long hours and put in a great deal of effort.

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ضغوطات هائلة

Some of the researchers involved in the study said that not all managers switch between integrity and favoritism when dealing with their friends at work. In some

experiments, managers decided to award bonuses andPromotions to employees based on merit and how long they had worked there.

At the same time, the findings showed that managers face immense pressure when deciding whether to promote or give a raise to friends who work for them,

even when they make those decisions fairly and completely impartially.

Managers or administrators at Human Resources may be able to withstand these pressures and overcome the problems, but this will never change the fact

that a friendship between an employee and their manager in the workplace can have serious, unintended consequences.