“We are fearful of things like rejection, failure and anything that will alter our self-concepts, we are really good at imagining our best selves and anything that will detract to that, will give us a lot of anxiety which we experience,” says Bermiss.
Have you just gone through evaluation season at work? If it caused stress, anxiety and fear, you should definitely listen to this episode as my guest, Sekou Bermiss explains the why. He is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flager Business School. He studies management, people analytics, managing human capital, organizational theory and design and has a deep understanding about why workers sometimes are afraid of being evaluated and fear related to the performance evaluation.
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