Underperformance by Design: A Scoping Review and Research Agenda of Intentional Task Underperformance at Work
Published online on December 26, 2025
Abstract
Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 2395-2426, July 2026.
Recent workplace trends reveal that workers frequently discuss and engage in deliberate underperformance, underscoring the growing relevance of intentional underperformance at work. Although various disciplines have long studied purposeful reductions in ...
Recent workplace trends reveal that workers frequently discuss and engage in deliberate underperformance, underscoring the growing relevance of intentional underperformance at work. Although various disciplines have long studied purposeful reductions in ...