Unhealthy Competition

Formal project teams tend to inhibit intergroup cooperation and create unhealthy competition among teams (we should have the highest priority regarding limited joint resources and we want to make sure that our project comes out first in upper management s rating). 

Incentive programs create unhealthy competition when individuals, crews, departments, or plants undermine the activities of their competitors to gain the awards. At one company, the department... 

Luigi Guerri was bom in Florence on 21 June 1823 when the House of Lorraine reigned, by the grace of God and the will of the nation. The boundaries of that world were the Apennine Mountains to the north and east, the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west, while southward, the unhealthy Maremma swamp barred the way to anyone who wanted to set foot in Sweet Tuscany. The academic world, however, was made up of a select few, and there was fierce competition for the few places that existed. 

Figure 11.15 Safety contests can motivate unhealthy competition.

Proposition 9 Beneficiaries deserve the kind of agency partnerships that move beyond rivalry and unhealthy competition. 

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