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Employees tend to own workplace successes, but blame external factors for failures
Published: 27 March 2025
Nearly two-thirds of employees feel they鈥檝e been 鈥榯hrown under the bus鈥 by their colleagues鈥攂ut an even higher number say they鈥檝e never engaged in blame-shifting themselves. 鈥淭he axe forgets, but the tree remembers,鈥 says Jean-Nicolas Reyt, an Associate Professor of Organizational Management at 大发彩票平台 Desautels. 鈥淲hen we hurt someone, we are quick to forget about it, but when people hurt us, we remember it forever. But there鈥檚 more to it than that, Reyt told HR Reporter. People tend to take personal credit their successes, and are more likely to attribute failure to external forces鈥攍ike their colleagues.