Higher status means lower performance when careers go into reverse, study finds
February 4, 2014, Ben Haimowitz
All-stars but not scrubs see performance declines after losing pay arbitrations
How do high-status individuals cope with serious career setbacks? The bigger they are, the harder they fall may be a familiar saying; yet, “the traditional perspective [is] that high-status individuals will be in a better position to deal with status loss and perform well afterwards than low-status individuals,” begins a new research paper by two business-school professors.
The professors then proceed to call this traditional view into question. Yes, high-status individuals may have “more resources than low-status individuals on which to draw,” but they also “experience more self-threat and subsequent difficulty performing well after losing status,” concludes their study in the current issue of the Academy of Management Journal.
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