Generating the Benefits

Reviewing

Step 1: This emphasized and formulated the difference amongst people in regard to what would benefit them in their social life and how to get it.

Step 2: This used a TET 2×2 Table, which differentiated the essences of the 7 approaches.

Step 3: The diagram permitted us to see all approaches simultaneously. This is precisely what is required within any group project, an organization or a community, because all approaches generate different significant benefits.

We have broadly answered the big question: What does each mentality count as a benefit?

We know that the productivity and well-being diagonal sets reveal distinct values, attitudes, behaviours and institutions intrinsic to benefiting from interaction.

Anticipating

Step 4, we must:

  1. understand those benefits in more detail,

    and

  2. grasp implications of pursuing those benefits.

In all types of benefit and all requirements for success, the concerns are handled distinctively by each diagonal set, as well as by each mentality within that set—either for the better or for the worse.

TOP NOTE: The items below list topics to be covered in Step 4; all topics will be unpacked and explained with diagrams.

Personal Benefits

When dealing with others, we mainly strive to be safe and to have autonomy:

  • Autonomy = the sense and practice of freedom of action
  • Protection = the sense and the reality of personal safety from harm

Societal Benefits

The general community values individual interactions in terms of its contribution to specific values and to social cohesion and stability:

  • Production = creating social goods—material, organisational,
    conceptual or spiritual
  • Cohesion = supporting the comprehensive, genuine and peaceful
    integration of all members
  • for personal productivity, &
  • for organized production.
  • for individual well-being, &
  • for managing change.
  • in the Productivity set by specialisation and focus, &
  • in the Well-being set by attention to others and to the group.
  • in the Productivity set: by objectivity and balance.
  • in the Well-being set: by subjectivity and responsiveness.
  • Type of feeling preferred and generated
  • Self-boundaries with reactions to these
  • Identity-relevant interactional states.

  • Commitment to Action:

    Productivity efforts benefit from invigoration and are harmed by demoralisation.

  • Social Bonds:

    Well-being efforts benefit from integration and are harmed by hostility.

Originally posted: July 2009