Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The Good-Guy Syndrome


The good guy syndrome is the behaviour possessed by certain people in order to please the other people. These people try to be good to everyone and always speak in favour of the other. This type of behaviour is legally very dangerous for the company.  Consider the case of the U S firm interviewing job candidates. The firm asked one of its partners to inform the candidate that she didn’t get selected. The guy in order to be good to her said that she was the most qualified candidate he ever interviewed but unfortunately he could not select her as the company do not have a position for the person like her. Somehow, they interviewee come to know that the company had hired two male employees. She sued the company charging sexual discrimination. So she won the case just only because of the guy who tried to be good to her. 

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