女性低估自身工作表现.doc

女性低估自身工作表现 发布时间：2009-08-17 ????作者：????来源：新东方 What do your co-workers think of your performance on the job? If youre a woman, youre three times more likely than a man to answer that question wrong. Women handicap themselves on the job by chronically underrating their standing with bosses and co-workers, says a new study slated for presentation next month to the Academy of Managements annual meeting. When asked to predict how they were rated by managers, direct reports and peers, women were significantly poorer at predicting others ratings than men, says the study of 251 managers by Scott Taylor of the University of New Mexico. A lack of self-confidence isnt the problem. The women surveyed thought highly of themselves compared with men in the study. But the females simply believed others regarded them as far less competent than they actually did, on a wide range of social and emotional skills related to leadership, according to the study. The ratings encompassed a wide range of attributes, from communication and conflict management to trustworthiness and teamwork. Overall, averaging all the ratings, the gap between prediction and reality was three times greater for women than for men. Women are so accustomed to decades of being disappeared or ignored, and to hearing histories of women whose contributions went unnoticed, that they assume these conditions exist to the same extent today, Dr. Taylor says. A few companies, of course, have fair, transparent, performance-based compensation systems that eliminate gender inequities. But at most employers, expecting to be devalued can exact a big toll. A friend of mine says she underestimated her standing at work for years and paid a high price in her paycheck. She started at a low-paid entry-level job at her company and advanced quickly up the ladder. But she didnt ask for a raise for several years, only to find out later that she was making 50% less than peers with similar or less experience. It came as a shoc