8 Ways Competition Improves Your Life
4. Better Employees
Competition also drives performance at the workplace. An employee’s performance is held up against other employees’ performances. Super competitive jobs not only ensure high quality applicants, they encourage great work ethic, because there will always be scores of other people eager to take that job. Mechanisms such as collective bargaining for unions actually eliminates this in many ways, and stymies competition. It is thought that job security and good benefits will motivate workers. While this is undoubtedly true, nothing motivates performance like competition.
