The Behavioural Factors of Co-workers’ Perception : An Empirical Study of Hospitality Sector

Abstract

The paper aims to determine the factors of sycophantic behaviour of employees that adopted in today’s world. It is a descriptive study and organized questionnaire has been used for data collection. Exploratory factor analysis has applied on the data and five factors (exemplification, dependence, ingratiation, manipulation, and self-representation) rere extracted from the results. The total variance explained by all the factors 75.040 per cent. The result concluds that sycophantic behaviour is scattering like cancer in the organization that affecting performance of those employees’ who well deserve and giving the opportunities to those who do least deserve. The study also suggests that if a person is trustworthy, has sycophantic behaviour, and uses it in the right way, then there is no harm to carry such kind of attitude. Implications and limitations are discussed.