The Only way is up? How Different Facets of Employee and Supervisor Perfectionism Help or Hinder Career Development.

Kathleen Otto, Martin Baluku, Amelie Schaible, Cemre Oflu, Emily Kleszewski

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Can Pursuing Perfection Ignite Sparks of Creativity? How and When Self-Oriented Perfectionism Leads to Radical and Incremental Creativity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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Kathleen OttoDepartment of Work and Organizational Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5737-2575

Martin BalukuSchool of Psychology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Amelie SchaibleDepartment of Work and Organizational Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

Cemre OfluDepartment of Work and Organizational Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

Emily KleszewskiDepartment of Work and Organizational Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6880-6965

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Abstract

Although the double-edged nature of perfectionism is widely acknowledged, little is known about how it shapes employee career development. By combining two field studies, we provide a multiperspective insight into the relevance of both employee and supervisor perfectionism for employee career development. While we expected self-oriented perfectionism (SOP) to have an ambivalent role for career development, we proposed that socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP) in particular, but also other-oriented perfectionism (OOP), would show maladaptive relationships with career-related indicators. In Study 1 (

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Career MobilityEmploymentMotivationPerfectionismAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung Adultcareerdelegationillegitimate tasksintrinsic successleadershipmultidimensional perfectionismself-determination theorywork motivation

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PMID38287640

DOI10.1177/00332941241229204

PMCPMC13076976

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