WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER: Co-Workers Who Give Credit Get Credit, Too

Go ahead – help out your work peers, and you’ll benefit, too.

University of Notre Dame researchers looked at workers, in various organizations, and found that those who publicly endorsed a peer’s contribution, with attribution to that person, enhanced both the status of those they credited, as well as their own.

Study co-leader, Nathan Meikle, says, “Amplifying others requires no new idea nor complicated decision making, and proves to be a very low-risk, easy strategy that can be used by anyone to help themselves and others.”