Influences in the Workplace

There are family, friends and mentors that had an incredible impact on my life. They have taught me many virtues, influenced my actions, and helped mold me throughout my career, people inspired and encouraged me to become a more charitable, ethical, and confident person. Their sheer generosity has helped me to establish a congruent manner within my actions. Reflecting about those who have influenced my life has been most interesting and created an image and vision that encourages growth, wisdom and courage.

Readers unfamiliar with the prison world will be intrigued into a story set on the inside of the many near your community. The expose to this new civilization will engage new dialogues and new concerns as you become aware of the magic and science involved in managing such a place. Raising issues that has escaped your mind daily, you will become aware of the magical mystery tours that are experience each day to maintain such an evil place where a murdered person’s killer roams the yards freely. Dealing with sophisticated ideals and methodologies along with electronic devices to monitor and observe such a person twenty four hours a day, you will be shocked in how these murderers succeed in settling in on a lifestyle that is both rewarding and beneficial to him or her as well as those they choose to associate with.

Looking closely there will be a close assimilation of behaviors’ between the leader of the prison and the leader of the pack. Leaders of the prison will always struggle with hiding their varied abilities to conquer human gloom inside these prisons while the leader of the pack will do everything in his or her power to expose such darkness setting where they live in fear and conflict. At odds in their mission to tell the world of their plight, the leader of the pack uses the tools of escalation and self-destruction to bring awareness to his dilemma while the leader of the prison will seek effective and powerful methods to suppress or obstruct such efforts to hide the truth. This world has all the vices of its own and almost always a pain-filled past where human suffering has taken a backseat to political success to explain nothing to the world.

This silence will allow financial growth to those successful in managing the issues and offer them elevated positions in the future to join the others in minimizing the dangers in this world. The devil himself is engaged in this cover up as he is bent on a mission to gain and collect more power from those eager to follow him. Paving the way to follow him, this journey will be an emotional upheaval where the story may end with success of failure, depending on how you follow the rules engaged by the devil himself. Secondary influences will allow better choices and the importance of choosing friend or foe depends on your ability to withstand some of these influences.

Working with people whose work ethics are positive is a rarity among my leaders as the world inside those horrific prisons are negative to say the least and fosters poor moral values and corrupted belief that work values should be focused on a person’s individual growth and success. Overriding those cultural norms of their childhood and teen age years, they place a value on work behaviors as others have taught them through peer interaction and prevention. The prevention of working with a positive clear conscious and ethical heart and mind so their decisions can be done with a more radical approach of not caring what the impact is on others since it’s their own survival they are interested in.

Being congruent with your peers who promised your personal growth if you are willing to follow their footsteps and management style, can result in interesting times as the bottom line is for you to forget many of the positive things you have learned and take on a new approach that disregards your family and other significant persons in your life. Setting out to become an island that can weather any storm that comes its way, you learn how to blame others for your shortcomings and praise those who see your point of view as a viable avenue to take and as a roadmap to success. Secondly, ignoring these family values and other influences, you set course to disregard others and become more independent in your thinking noticing the reaction of others to determine your next move.

Formulating your own perceptions and socialization of the system you are manipulating, others will perceive your work attitude and ethics as a part of their own and join you in the quest for power and control. Like children following their fathers, they work hard to shape these new work attitudes and develop a bias in the environment that is very much in your favor. The influence of socialization begins with knowing yourself first. It has been said that the more you know about yourself first, the easier it is to stick your nose in other people’s business. Fostering new norms in your lifestyles and management principles shapes new socialization methods and enhances your chances to get people to follow you through your entire journey to the top. This is an important element of who you make friends with and who you surround yourself with during this entire episode of gaining power.

Hone your skills so that in a few moments of meeting someone, you can tell if they are onboard with your methodologies and ideology so that you don’t waste your time recruiting someone who will jump ship if the going gets rough. This socializing process should include looking for persons who are capable, hard-driving, logical, scholarly and organized. Take these above those who are gifted with those who possess the skills of negotiating, mediating and compromising but do not discard them for they are valuable down the road to recruit others who the “dirty work” for you or your management team. Creating this inner fraternity of leaders and followers, you will gain a significant impact on the attitudes of others as you gain your strength along the way. Slowly, you must convince your team to sacrifice their personal lives and focus on their professional goals to be successful in their quest for achievement in this most negative environment. Transforming such values takes time and with patience and careful selections of individuals who can perform these functions of fostering support for you, they too will benefit from the recognition of acceptance by the powers to be.

Promoting work ethics that are transformed to meet your individual styles and needs are important and essential to the injection of good work attitudes that promote your goals. Although these “good work attitudes” promote your agenda they may not necessarily promote the best interest of those you surrounded yourself with during this process of vetting the perfect candidate to help you gain influence and power along the way to success. It is important to select and identify those you feel are the most qualified before you allow entrance into your private and often secret circle of influence and avoid grooming those not compatible like a plague any further and discard them for others to pick up or mentor into their own destiny or form.

This way, your finalized strategy and goals are not revealed to anyone except those loyal to you and your cause. Life isn’t fair and for this kind of person to not understand the ramifications of such a life is foolish. Corrections is a disposable world where valuable minds are disposed of daily and sometimes salvaged by others who see the potential of using you for their own gain and games. This kind of work conflict of sorting out candidates or non-candidates is important because it allows the individual to manage his or her own environment particularly their individual wellbeing and determining the ability of how they will perform within a particular workplace or the organization. Using this method these demonic individuals will seek out competent and hard driven individuals who have exemplified their abilities to work under high workload pressures, long working hours and a frequent unsupportive management concept insisting that it is a weakness to ask for time off or other special favors to enhance the personal lifestyle. Thus it comes down to finding individuals who can meet the competing work demands both at work and home but willing to sacrifice the home front for the work place. Now that you have determined your basis for keeping or disposing the individual for your own personal career growth, you have to decide which is better, male or female.

It has been primarily said that men, in relationship to job stressors, family ties, socialization and market opportunities women are more likely to hold their commitment for such challenges. Based on the fact you are seeking a person for a high organizational position, it is likely such choice would be a man due to certain conditions within a prison culture where there is in fact a glass ceiling for women thus this stigma is hard to overcome. However, having seen firsthand of the tenacious and selfish the ways of a woman can be, it is likely they are equivalent to the task and only a fool would not consider such a selection for his or her own team. Having two women on the same team can result in havoc and fragmentation of the team and its unity. What happens when you put two alpha minded females on the same team and how does it affect the outcome you might ask yourself before making a final selection. Being careful you must be aware of the fact that some women are willing to exploit their femininity to get their way with men [or other women] to close a deal. Choosing to be in more control of her destiny, she will become a loner and ruthless in nature but with a smile. She will work hard to project an image that sets her apart from the others and do everything needed to be perceived to be reckless and aggressive. Most of all, she will become a dominant figure to reckon with.

Having two of these creatures within the same room elevates tension as both are dominant in nature and eager to grab the tools of power away from one another to show their leadership style and skills. Competing for the lead they may both be contradiction in actions and sells her sweetness as necessary but evil in disguise. Both of them, enjoying the thrill of gaining success in the business, they may anticipate and participate to be involved in characteristics that are essential for the team to benefit from and be successful. However, it is likely that the presence of two of these alpha characters will destroy the team’s goals and must result in the removal of one of these much needed individuals in a corrupt business world that thrives on games and intimidation. Diversity in the work place is an essential influence for many reasons. People of all races, nationalities, color or even sexual orientation and disabled workers have the ability to complement a work group or team to make it function effectively and handle those complicated various tasks at hand with a high degree of effectiveness that is essential in the work group’ success.

Between these diverse groups lays the ability to communicate and demonstrate sending and receiving both verbal and non-verbal messages enhancing the group’s ability to be accurate with purposeful timing and deliveries of their communication. Culturally speaking, this is a powerful tool for management as it will overcome many institutional issues at hand and deliver the resolution in such a manner, it is handled with sensitivity and determination to be fair and equitable for all those involved. Their lack of presence can demoralize or sabotage an institution’s attempt to show compassion, empathy and consideration of the issues at hand and lends a hand of credibility to those in power and rule. One powerful effect of such presence is their ability to provide to the work group an appropriate referral based on their linguistic skills to interact and resolve the matter at hand.

Their cultural knowledge is necessary to completely comprehend the matter at hand so credibility is intact whenever the matter is elevated for another review by a third party. Reviewing practices, traditions and other influences in the work place can only enhance the comprehension of those issues that exist within such an organization and avoid potential biases, prejudices, and discriminatory practices. Their cognizance of these elements is important and adds to the final product the work group is seeking. Therefore, when you consider your selection of a confidant for these inner circle positions and during the process of vetting individuals for such confidential position you must take into consideration each and every element discussed here to ensure you have selected prima facie individuals for your team. Socialization, gender and diversity are driving factors for your selection of such preference. Now, using your knowledge of those resources made available to you within your own organization, you will need to identify, pick and select your choice for those confidential mentoring candidates so that you and your group can empower them to lay a foundation for you to trample other people’s rights and privileges through a careful network of social and defamatory techniques that weed out the weak and oppress the strong.

Many people know that transparency used a social context which usually implies openness, communication, and accountability. “It is a symbolic expression of the meaning a “transparent” object is one that can be seen through.” Transparent events include open meetings, financial disclosure statements, freedom of information legislation, budgetary review, audits, etc. The definition of Deception is acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment.

Someone once said that “Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.” In a world of political correctness, there are ample amounts of both transparency flaws and deceptive practices to deceive the public of the government’s actual state of affairs or purpose for engagement. The rationale why these practices are used comes back to illustrate the need governments to refuse to show people or others how they actually conduct their business and minimize negative impacts that may influence their credibility or social desirability. More commonly, it’s not the way you actually do things but rather, the way you say how you do things. The difference between the two is substantially important to the degree of accuracy involved in the reporting. On the other hand, it’s not a question on how you do actually do things but rather a question on how things are done. One requires more detail than the other and that procedure can be harmful if too incriminating or distasteful.

That is the only purpose political correctness serves; damage control. Reporters, being intuitive in nature, are failing to ask the proper questions of public official and are letting them off the hook with dishonest and partial answers. Misleading the facts, they [public agencies] have conditioned their responses to meet the social expectation regardless of the distraction such an answer may provide the public. One method of controlling this environment is to hand out questions and answers before the interview offering a sort of debriefing when in reality it is a deceptive way to avoid being asked the wrong questions that may commonly lead to an imperfection or misperception.

Objections to false transparency options or deceptive methods are becoming more and more scrutinized whenever the practice reveals a weak link in the reputation of the agency or public official making the statements to the media or public. Learning how to balance the two and projecting this “credibility” is tricky and requires repetitive practice to appear to be sincere, open minded and willing to cooperate. This is why many agencies have public information officers who can stand the glare and anxiety of releasing information to the press. The objections however follow political paths that create the image that if the party in power has the majority, then they are provided more credibility and more coverage than those in the minority. The lesson learned here is the media’s ability to reach the politicians is only as good as their reputation to not infringe on the political party in question and not challenge their creditability and treat them with velvet gloves. In this manner, they are the recipients of favorable access to the news and given “scoop” assignment advantages over the others who report it “like it is” falling in disfavor immediately and denied the access to those who control the politicians and their activities.


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