Performance Typology Map
Abilities
Arousal
Attitude
Behavior
Beliefs
Competencies
Engagement
Environment
EI
Experience (nurture)
Feelings
Intention
Motivation
Nature (genes)
Organizational Level
Performance
Performance Improvement
Performer Level
Process Level
Results
Skills
Social Pressure
Talent
Understanding
Values
- Abstract/Scholastic - the ability to understand and manage ideas.
- Mechanical/Visuospatial - the ability to understand and manipulate concrete objects.
- Social - the ability to understand and manage people and act wisely in social contexts.
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred. - Korean proverb
However, it does seem clear that people are able to influence others by pressuring them to act in a desired manner. Peer pressure is one example. However, this is mostly a youth phenomenon. The older we grow, the less influence our peers have over us.
As we grow older, we move into a new form of social pressure -- organizational culture or corporate culture -- the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one organization from another (Hofstede, 1997). The term organizational culture first appeared casually in the 1960s as a synonym for climate. The equivalent corporate culture was coined in the 1970s.
Organizations with strong cultures tend to have better control of their employees:
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of excellent companies. Moreover, the stronger the culture and the more it was directed toward the marketplace, the less need was there for policy manuals, organization charts, or detailed procedures and rules. In these companies, people way down the line know what they are supposed to do in most situations because the handful of guiding values is crystal clear. - Peters and Waterman
Norms
These cultures, social pressure, etc. are guided by norms -- rules or laws that members of a group follow. There are two forms:- Informal norms: unwritten rules or standards that govern the behavior of a group. For example, drug cultures and peer pressure.
- Formal norms: official standards or laws that govern behavior. For example, traffic signals and safety codes.
References
Hofstede, Geert, (1997). Culture and Organizations: Software of the Mind, p. 180. New York: McGraw-Hill.Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner, and Richard D. Roberts, (2002). Emotional Intelligence: Science & Myth. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, p.151.
Thorndike, e.l. (1920). Intelligence and its uses. Harper's Magazine, 140, 227-235.