Is Argumentativenes A Behavioural Disorder!
There are certain traits in the persons whom we interact in our daily live which apparently get on our nerves and argumentativeness is one these. This can generally be defined and described a tendency on the part of person to take a contrarian position on anything you put forward by launching himself into a verbal essay for which you are least prepared. Obviously, they are deficit in interactive skills which can aptly called a behavioral disorder which, if timely remedial actions are not taken, can turn into a full-blown mental ailment. From the organization's point such persons are dubbed as trouble-makers and they need imaginative and intelligent handling.
There is a school of thought which looks upon the quality of high argumentativeness with some degrees of positivism. According to which self-assertiveness which finds expression in argumentativeness is nothing but a way of advancing one's position with force and reasoning with the sole intention of weakening the position of his opponents by undermining his line of argument and thereby demoralizing and demolishing his position. Even it views the absence of such argumentativeness in a person as a kind of weakness in the form of shyness from conflict, inability to express one's dissidence. Thus it clear enough that need is to strike a fine balance between these two extremes. What should be discouraged and strongly disapproved is the verbal aggression which take the forms of abuses, threat, ultimatums which are manifestations of negativity in its worst form.
Now coming to the interesting case of a finance and accounts officer who is employed with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research and his plight for being excessively argumentative. The gentleman in question has been subjected to the punishment of transfer as many as nine times in his eventful service career of just nine years. Just think of it! He was dubbed as “quarrelsome” in his service record. But the interesting part of service career is that when to his job performance he has turned out to be an honest and efficient person . He had the last laugh with his argument before the Central Administrative Tribunal which upheld his case by asking his employer to remove the words “argumentative” and “quarrelsome” from his Annual Report. As very report is a bundle of contradictions. On the one hand it describes his performance as satisfactory in analytical abilities and honest in the general assessment category on the other hand it describes him as a “quarrelsome” and “argumentative” person prompting frequent transfers. However, he was asked to improve his human relationship skills.
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