Social authority designates the complex all the personal abilities and attitudes, which contribute to align the own behavior of an individual to a joint action orientation and to affect in this sense also the behavior and the attitudes from coworkers to in the elevated colloquial language. "Social competent" behavior links the individual action goals of persons with the attitudes and values of a group.

The term "socially" can be understood here socialpsychologically as "interhumanly", sociological-worth-neutrally as "socially" or economiceconomics as moral.

Economic life

"Social authority" is used in enterprises frequently synonymously with the so-called "softly skills". The term of the social authority is however more comprehensive and embraces e.g. also criticism ability.

This kind of the authority applies on the job market for the middle management as a key qualification and describes in this connection the ability to bring and to use for common goals "team spirit" and motivation into co-operation with others (colleague, customer, superior, coworkers). As "social authority" also the successful effect of superiors is considered on the work of coworkers.

The term of the social authority is used in particular in the personnel management, approximately in connection with choice of personnel, Coaching, supervision, system information or Peer Leader training. There is no standardized group of personality characteristics, which are assigned to the social authority. The used Konstrukte and test procedures subjectively selected, partly also differently in different industries.

Psychology

In the psychology "social authority" designates the whole of the talents, which are for the social interaction useful or necessary.

Social authority

Generally following knowledge and abilities rank among the social authority:

In handling others:

• Empathie (sympathy and/or projecting ability)
• Knowledge of human nature
• Criticism ability
• Perception
• Self-discipline
• Tolerance
• Language authority
• Intercultural authority

In the purchase to co-operation:

• Team ability
• Co-operation
• Conflict ability
• Able to communicateness

Guidance qualities:

• Responsibility
• Ability of getting through
• Flexibility
• Consequence
• Model function

Generally:

• Emotional intelligence
• Self-confident its
• Commitment
• Musi abilities

The education to the social authority must begin as promptly as possible, if it wants to be successful. Only with extreme consequence and tolerance, as well as learning on the basis even deeply felt authentic examples learning) to be able easy to small successes to adjust itself. How difficult it is to obtain lastingly successes one recognizes for example with the fight against prejudices.

Because the parents' house is overtaxed often with it, would have ev. already starting from that 3. Lebensjahr with it to be begun (see in France the Maternelles). In Germany on the one hand in education plans for reform it is written that social authority is a substantial education and educating goal.

Lifelong, intercultural and social learning represent to a certain extent a unit regarding social authority. School methods, which facilitate a learning of social authority, are autonomous learning, open learning, kommunikative instruction. One can use thereby Kraft of the group, it however always goes around individual humans and its relationship with its respective environment.

The andragogische range (adult education) of this learning concept is made by Civic Education, an advancement of the political education.

Criticism

The term social authority is used in a multiplicity of meanings, which limits the usefulness of the term.

An alternative definition of social authority is to be reread with Asendorpf: Therefore the social authority consists of two components: Conflict ability and willing to cooperate shank. Socially competent humans therefore have the rare gift to use these two rather opposite behaviors situativ in such a way that it will achieve you possible own goals within social relations without the relationship to endanger.

See also

• Emotional intelligence
• Emotional authority

Literature

• Arnold, R. (1997): From the further training to the authority development: New models for further discussion and organization beginnings in in changing action field, in: Authority development 1997, working group qualification development management, Waxmann, Berlin
• Baumer, Thomas: Manual intercultural authority (2 volumes); Publishing house Orell Zurich. ISBN 3-280-02691-1 and ISBN 3-280-05081-2
• German manager federation registered association (2003): Manual softly Skills 1. Social authority, Zurich (vdf university publishing house), ISBN 3728128783.
• German manager federation registered association (2004): Manual softly Skills 2. Psychological authority, Zurich (vdf university publishing house), ISBN 3728128791.
• German manager federation registered association (2004): Manual softly Skills 3. Method authority, Zurich (vdf university publishing house), ISBN 3728128805.
• Mueller, H. - J. (1999):

Related links

• Softly Skills - term clarifying and studies
• Psychological definition
• Definition
• Diagnosis
• Educational perspective on the term
• B5 report
• Social authority in the occupation

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