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Do you agree with the "opposite-sex effect" when men and women work together?

2009-04-17View Original

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Some people will happily complete tasks in front of the opposite sex that they are extremely reluctant to complete in front of the same sex, and sometimes show some wit or bravery. Many bosses are also willing to let male and female colleagues become partners and complete a project together. The so-called "men and women work together without getting tired." This is the "opposite sex effect." Dear reader, do you agree with the “opposite-sex effect” in the workplace? “What are the benefits and disadvantages of the "opposite-sex effect" on work? Have you ever experienced, or are you currently experiencing, the way men and women work together? Please search for relevant information based on the following prompt words. Share your opinions based on your personal experience and speak freely. This post was last edited by yutr on 2009-4-17 15:18 ]
Reply #22009-04-17
There has always been a 'myth' circulating around us that men and women can work together without getting tired. In reality, we have indeed seen many effective examples. However, in some cases, the phenomenon of men and women working together without getting tired is not a myth that will never be broken. When encountering people of different times, different environments, different mentality, and different qualities, and the cooperation is not good, there will also be situations where men and women work together without getting tired.; In addition, there are some male-male matching and female-female matching, which do not necessarily make the work very tiring. If men and women can appreciate, respect, care for, love and understand each other when working together, a happy situation will arise. Everyone feels that working together is a kind of enjoyment. This happy mood can relieve the mental tension at work, resolve the unhappy things in the heart, and dilute the physical fatigue. This happy and relaxed atmosphere presented to everyone makes people constantly desire, strive for, and maintain. Therefore, some managers now advocate the implementation of male-female matching in team building in order to achieve good results of harmony, sharing, and pioneering progress. However, if you want to achieve overall performance by improving the effect of matching men and women, you must also study the methods of matching men and women, and you must understand and analyze the phenomenon and reasons why men and women are not tired when working together.: 1. The instinctive reaction of same-sex repels and opposite-sex attraction. When we were in physics class, the teacher used magnets for experiments. Magnets with different polarities automatically attracted each other before they came close to each other, but magnets with the same polarity automatically separated when they were put together. This is what we call the phenomenon of same-sex repulsion and opposite-sex attraction. This phenomenon also exists in our lives. For example, when a good-looking girl cannot do something, we will find that the male compatriots around her will take the initiative to help her without her asking. Even if she is tired and sweating, her back is sore, she will be extremely happy, and will show off in front of her peers, as if she has won a grand prize. 2. Men desire to be admired, and women desire to be loved. This is because of vanity. People, both men and women, have vanity, but their strengths and weaknesses are different. It is precisely because of vanity that men work hard and women dress themselves up at all costs and enjoy it endlessly. In fact, the only purpose is to attract the attention of others. 3. The role of opposite-sex motivation. I remember once I saw some young men and women on the way to climb a big mountain. When I was halfway up the mountain, a young brother said that he couldn’t climb anymore. He sat there and refused to go up any more. He said: “You go ahead and climb, I'll wait for you to come down here." At that time, several other men persuaded him to keep climbing, but to no avail. At this time, a young lady stood up and said: “Are you so useless? This woman is even worse." Unexpectedly, these words were so powerful. The young man immediately stood up and rushed to the front of the team. In the end, the young man was the first to reach the top of the mountain. Seeing him cheering for joy at the top of the mountain, I truly realized that the motivation of the opposite sex is more effective than the motivation of the same sex, and can make people work hard to achieve their goals despite difficulties. 4. A happy mood is the best medicine to eliminate unhappiness and fatigue. A smile can make you younger, which means that a happy mood can make people younger. If you are in a happy mood, you will become optimistic about everything, and regard doing things as a kind of enjoyment instead of suffering. If you do things with such a happy attitude, the suffering and tiredness you suffer will become insignificant. But everything has two sides or many sides, and of course people are no exception. For example, people have the defect of aesthetic fatigue. Aesthetic fatigue makes it difficult for men and women to work together, and gradually develops into a situation where men and women are tired even when they work together, eventually leading to a situation where they become annoyed when they see or mention someone. This kind of situation where men and women are tired even when working together is generally due to the following reasons:: 1. The quality is not high, and the words and actions frequently hurt others. Some people, whether men or women, do not pay attention to their own self-cultivation. They often speak and do things without considering the feelings and interests of others, thereby hurting others. This can be tolerated once or twice, but it is unbearable if it happens again and again, resulting in conflicts between the two parties and cracks in cooperation. In this way, the injured party will feel that working and living with the other party is quite tiring. 2. Being selfish for a long time benefits oneself at the expense of others. Some people are so selfish that they always consider their own interests in everything and completely ignore the interests and feelings of others. Sometimes they even intentionally do things that harm the interests of others. Living or working with such people will make people feel very annoyed and tired. Even friends or colleagues of the opposite sex will become bored over time. 3. Aesthetic fatigue. No matter how beautiful something is, you will get tired of it after looking at it for a long time. This is what we often call aesthetic fatigue. There are men and women in a team. In the early days, everyone can appreciate each other's strengths, tolerate each other's shortcomings, and be willing to help each other deal with some things regardless of gains and losses. However, as time goes by, after the novelty wears off, coupled with some ordinary bumps and bruises and other unhappy things, the enthusiasm for the other party gradually cools down. This change causes differences and cracks in the cooperation between the two parties, so that the unsmooth cooperation makes people feel particularly tired. 4. Go beyond the normal relationship between male and female colleagues. Office romances are popular nowadays. After getting along for a long time, relationships between superiors and subordinates and between colleagues will naturally develop beyond the relationship between ordinary colleagues. After having a romantic relationship, the calm relationship between colleagues in the past was broken, because romantic relationships are selfish, and selfish factors make things begin to become complicated. Colleagues begin to have reservations and no longer take the initiative to help each other as before. One person begins to argue with colleagues over some trivial matters and another person joins in. Jealousy begins to appear, and various other disharmony sounds make everyone feel separated in their hearts, and the pressure of communication between people increases and they feel tired. It's hard to do something, it's even harder to do it well, but it's even more difficult to do it well and maintain it for a long time. It is not difficult to achieve a situation where men and women can work together without getting tired for a while, but it is difficult to maintain it for a long time, and there is a bottleneck. Therefore, we need to find some ways to continuously maintain and break through to maintain this good atmosphere and avoid being limited by the concept of men and women working together without tiring, such as: 1. Cultivate a positive heart and cheerful character. People with a cheerful personality are optimistic about everything and think for the best in everything, so they can live relaxedly ; People with strong self-motivation will regard difficulties as training rather than as injustice done to them by God or others. They will not feel pessimistic and world-weary, and feel that everything has hope and a future. ; If you have these two good mentalities, whether you are a man and a woman, a man and a woman, or a woman in a team, you can be happy and work together easily without feeling tired, regardless of the length of time you spend with each other. 2. Abandon the inertial thinking that men and women can work together without getting tired. Both men and women should observe more and discover the advantages of each other. Good feelings will lead to a good mood. Many times we find that things that many people agree with are often wrong. Things that were done in a certain way every time before are now done incorrectly. This is the habitual thinking error that people often make. Therefore, we must also abandon the past view that only when men and women are matched can we work without getting tired, and work hard and be good people. Whether it is a combination of men and women, or all old men, or all heroes of the Zhengguo, we can achieve the state of working without being tired. 3. Carry forward the traditional virtue of respecting the elderly and caring for the young, so that the team can work together in harmony. Nowadays, some young people have been in the society for a period of time, mastered some skills or been appreciated by their bosses, and then they don't know who they are. When looking at the older generation, they think that their culture is inferior, their ideas are outdated, they are slow to respond, and they are hesitant to do things. They think they are a burden; If he can think of the day when he will be old, and he was brought up by the older generation like these new people, then he will truly understand the virtue of respecting the old and loving the young that has been passed down in China for thousands of years. Even if he pays more than others, he will feel happy and worthwhile and will not feel tired. 4. Spiritual encouragement boosts confidence. People will inevitably encounter difficulties. Some difficulties can demoralize people, make them lose the fun and passion of life or work, and lead to pessimistic and world-weary thoughts, making people feel that work and life are a burden and feel particularly tired. In this case, relatives, friends, colleagues, and even strangers around him should give him appropriate help to cheer him up. The spiritual encouragement will make him more confident and allow him to move away from the "tired" boulder in his heart. 5. Establish a culture of helping others. Sometimes when we are struggling to do something badly but are alone and helpless, what you are afraid of is not that the thing will be ruined, but that you will not see anyone to help you. At this time, you will feel particularly tired, so tired that you may even want to give up. Therefore, we should realize the importance of teamwork from these feelings, cherish the fate of everyone being together, help each other, and successfully overcome every difficulty. Matching of men and women is a way of team building and an active agent in team life. A good match of men and women can make team life and work more colorful, smoother, and higher in performance. However, we must also be careful to avoid overexaggerating the role of mythical matching of men and women. Reasonable matching should be based on people and circumstances. At the same time, we must understand that teams without male and female matches can also easily and happily perform well.
Reply #32018-08-18
This feeling has prerequisites. The woman must be beautiful and work hard, and the man must be interesting to the woman and capable. Only in this way can efficiency be improved. Or it could be that the work is not only tiring but also inefficient.

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