How to Succeed at Business — Have a Conscientious Partner
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iStock/Thinkstock(ST. LOUIS) — It’s well established that problems at work can affect relationships at home. Now, Washington University researchers contend that the personality of an employee’s partner can mean the difference between climbing the corporate ladder or falling right off it.
Psychologists Brittany Solomon and Joshua Jackson looked at data from 4,500 married people that included personality tests and interviews about their success or lack thereof at work and concluded that a partner’s conscientiousness is the key to career advancement.
In a nutshell, people with conscientious partners had higher levels of promotions, wages and job satisfaction than when the significant other didn’t care as much about what happened at work.
Why is this so? Solomon and Jackson found that workers were at a distinct advantage when their partners were organized, dependable and willing to go above and beyond the call of duty when it came to helping their other half get ahead.
Jackson explained, “A spouse’s personality influences many daily factors that sum up and accumulate across time to afford one the many actions necessary to receive a promotion or a raise.”
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