PERFECTIONISM IN THE WORKPLACE: MAIN FEATURES AND CAREER GROWTH MANAGEMENT

The relevance of the research lies in the fact that perfectionism as a psychological construct of a personality is acquiring a status of a social phenomenon influenced by external social and economic factors, such as generational change, difficult economic conditions, reduced resources, increased competition in the labor market. The aim of the research is to consider career progression process security for perfectionist employees. A semantic analysis of the terms “career growth” and “perfectionism” in the context of scientific research was used. The research indicates that employee perfectionism at the workplace characterizes mainly initial career stages and has two development trends: positive and negative. The former appears as increased working ability and labor efficiency, team leadership, and their inspiration for higher productivity. The latter manifests itself as inefficient activity, inability to achieve organizational goals, excessive and unwanted attention to detail, self-criticism, and fault-finding with colleagues. Common perfectionist features are low-stress resilience, communicability, goal rigidness, all-or-nothing approach to reaching goals. In an organizational environment, positive employee perfectionism has a high value since company management draws up ambitious plans for development and profit generation. Matching personal employee interests and organizational goals can bring intended results; however, it requires the creation of certain conditions. The practical relevance of the conducted analysis lies in the fact that perfectionist career trajectory management should be primarily oriented towards correction of their personal construct. Lateral promotion requires training time management skills, goal prioritization, teamwork, nonstandard methods of problem-solving and goal achievement. Vertical advancement implies learning courses on business communication, stress resistance, leadership, and management. Individual career trajectory planning, labor activity monitoring, healthy psychological climate, incentive schemes are necessary conditions for successful perfectionist employee functioning in an organizational environment.