Measuring the perception of co-worker's sycophantic behavior: An empirical study of hospitality sector Poonam1, Dr. Chahal H. S.2 1Research Scholar, Guru Nanak Dev University, RC, Gurdaspur, India Email id: Poonambabouria@gmail.com 2Assistant Professor, Guru Nanak Dev University, RC, Gurdaspur, India Email id: chahal_hs@hotmail.com Online published on 8 July, 2019. Abstract The paper aim to determine the factors of sycophantic behavior of employees’ that adopted in the today's world and it is scattering like cancer in the organization that affecting performance of those employees’ who are well deserving and giving the opportunities to those who are least deserving. It is a descriptive study and well structured questionnaire has been used for data collection. The data has been collected from the employees’ who are working in the four-star and three-star hotels in Amritsar, Punjab. We distributed 200 questionnaires, but only 131 questionnaires were returned which were used for further investigation. Exploratory factor analysis has applied by using Principle Component Analysis and five factors were extracted from the results. Top Keywords Sycophancy behavior, Hospitality culture, Co-workers Perception. Top |