Today, competition has so much effect on the workplace and the way people are motivated to work. Competition can be a good thing or a bad thing in today’s society. It can cause people to speed up production, strive to be a better worker overall, and motivate others to want to do as they are. Competition can also be very negative. It can make people perform in a way that they must win at all cost. Workers think they are helping their company by going above and beyond but actually only slowing down production. In the essays by Lois P. Frankel, Stephen R. Covey, and Dale Carnegie, they each gave their own opinion on competition and how it affects the workplace. Each gave examples and real life situations of how competition can affect workers. Dale Carnegie likes the idea that competition motivates others to work harder and helps them speed up production (306-307). Covey seems to differ. He believes that it harms the workplace and causes workers to get off track and not keep the main goal in mind (309-312). I agree with all three of the authors. As I have already stated, competition can be both harmful and helpful in the workplace. Let us look further into how these essays differ and agree with competition in the workplace.
I feel that Carnegie and Covey were on a completely different page when it came to competition. Carnegie used a very inspiring story to help readers to better understand why competition is a good thing in the workplace. It certainly helped me. It gave me a better perspective of how the nature of competition affected workers. I was able to look at a real life situation and see the affects. That grabs most readers’ attention. When someone can see how a situation goes and how it affects others, then the reader is pu...
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In conclusion, you can obviously see that Frankel, Covey, and Carnegie all had their own opinions on the subject of competition in the workplace. Some agreed with others while others disagreed. I thought that each author was able to get their point across and support their argument with plenty of reasoning. I feel that competition is very important in a healthy work environment. I think that it helps to keep workers on their toes and keep them always striving towards something greater. Some may disagree with my decision by saying that competition only makes a workplace suffer and become nothing but a game. Well, today work is exactly that. It is a game that you have to adapt to in order to succeed. Whether you have to compete or not, you have to learn the rules to impress others, to be successful, and to keep yourself going where you want.