Study of Self-Serving Biases in Pakistan Software Industry
Faisal Shafique Butt, Naveed Qureshi, Wasif Nisar · 2013
In this paper, the results of survey, conducted to study the self-serving bias in the teams working on the different software projects in the Pakistan software houses, are reported. The survey was conducted through questionnaires and interviews among multiple software houses in the Pakistan to study the gap between a person’s own perception about his performance towards the project andthe perception of the others towards his contribution. According to the results it is clear that there is statistically a huge difference between a person’s own perception about his contribution and the contribution that was perceived by his team matesand this gap can act as a source of conflict or other psychological problems among the teammates and in the long run, these problem act as a hindrance towards achievements of the team goals. This paper highlights this difference and its implications for the proper working of