Answer:

False

Explanation:

When it comes to playing favorites, no matter how fair you think you’re being and no matter how high you think your EQ is, you’re probably guilty,” says Robert Sutton, Stanford University professor and coauthor of Scaling Up Excellence. Research on our collective lack of self-awareness backs this up. “Most of us are remarkably clueless about how we come across.” And yet it’s natural to have different relationships with different people at work. “With good reasons, you default to the people you consider to be excellent colleagues, the people you can rely on and enjoy,” says Karen Dillon, author of the HBR Guide to Office Politics. But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. “The danger is that you’re laying a foundation for creating a dysfunctional team around you,” she says. Here are some strategies to ensure fairness.