Performance Orientation

 

It reflects the extent to which a community encourages and rewards innovation, high standards, excellence, and performance improvement.

 

HIGH PERFORMANCE ORIENTATION societies have characteristics such as...

• Value training and development.

• Value competitiveness and materialism.

• View formal feedback as necessary for performance improvement.

• Value what one does more than who one is.

• Expect direct, explicit communication. 

LOW PERFORMANCE ORIENTATION societies have characteristics such as...

• Value societal and family relationships.

• Value harmony with the environment.

• View formal feedback as judgmental and discomfiting.

• Value who one is more than what one does.

• Expect indirect, subtle communication.