Idiosyncratic credit
In sociology and social psychology, idiosyncratic credit is the tolerance range of a social group or society in relation to the individual deviation of an individual from their group norm .
General
This “credit” is acquired through social status , competence and conformity in the group and moderates sanctions in the event of deviant behavior. The term is closely related to the topic of normative social influence in social psychology .
Leadership research
The approach is also used in leadership research . There can executives according to the extent of their idiosyncrasy out loan that the guided employees perceive leadership as legitimate and therefore in accordance with the guidance interventions behave. The loan can be z. B. be used up by failures. Then those led who are guided by their own interests will avoid the influence of the manager as much as possible. Managers can also use their own idiosyncratic credit to display leadership behavior that is usually not rewarded and therefore consumes credit. As long as this is not done excessively, the led will follow anyway. This can be done e.g. B. use in the case of "deviating" behavior in the sense of innovation, organizational development and other change processes, even if those being led are skeptical or negative about these concerns.
literature
- E. Aronson , TD Wilson, RM Akert: Social Psychology. 6th edition. Pearson Studium, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8273-7359-5 , p. 257.
- E. Hollander: Conformity, status, and idiosyncrasy credit. In: Psychological Review. Volume 65 (2), 1958, pp. 117–127.
- E. Hollander: Influence processes in leadership - followership: inclusion and the idiosyncrasy credit model. In: Donald A. Hantula: Advances in Social and Organizational Psychology: a Tribute to Ralph Rosnow. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers, Mahwah NJ 2006, ISBN 1-4106-1744-0 , pp. 293-312.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Edwin P Hollander, Conformity, status, and idiosyncrasy credit , in: Psychological Review vol. 65, 1958, pp. 117-127