ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors reflect on two personality styles that are of particular interest in this regard: perfectionism and impostorism. They describes two personality styles that can have negative impacts on an employee’s resilience. The authors first address perfectionism, how to identify it in ourself and others, and manage it in the workplace. They explore impostorism, its related characteristics and how to manage it. The consequence of this in the workplace is that these excessive standards can result in inefficient time management. In the workplace, this means that perfectionists might be reluctant to accept promotions or find it difficult to confidently commit to decisions. Research on these two dimensions of perfectionism in the workplace has also demonstrated that adaptive perfectionism has more positive and less negative work-related outcomes. Slade and Owens (1998) dual process model of perfectionism provides an explanation for why adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism lead to different outcomes.
