Super-chicken model

The Super-chicken model refers to a manner of team recruitment that favors bringing together highly driven overachievers. It is argued that this can be counterproductive because of the negative effects of hyper-competitiveness on a group's dynamic, and that recruitment that emphasizes collaboration over individual excellence can result in greater productivity.[1] The name makes analogy to the interactions among chickens observed in a study by Purdue University evolutionary biologist William Muir.[2]

  1. ^ Editor, Is the Professional Pecking Order Doing More Harm Than Good? by NPR on October 2, 2015
  2. ^ Muir, W. M. (2013). Genetics and the Behaviour of Chickens: Welfare and Productivity. In Genetics and the Behaviour of Domestic Animals. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). pp. 1–30.