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Here's what coworkers think when you suck up to your boss

  • Written by Trevor Foulk, Doctoral Student, University of Florida
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Few employees would deny that ingratiation is ubiquitous in the workplace.

This behavior goes by many names – kissing up, sucking up, brown-nosing and ass-kissing. Indeed, the fact that there are so many names that describe this behavior suggests that it’s something that goes on all the time...

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