Instrumentality

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Expectancy theory - Instrumentality: Performance → Outcome (P→O)

1 Instrumentality is the belief that a person will receive a reward if the

performance expectation is met. This reward may come in the form of a

pay increase, promotion, recognition or sense of accomplishment.

Instrumentality is low when the reward is the same for all

performances given.


Expectancy theory - Instrumentality: Performance → Outcome (P→O)

1 Instrumentality is increased when formalized policies associate rewards to performance.


Hyperspace (science fiction) - Instrumentality of Mankind series

1 In the Instrumentality of Mankind future history series by Cordwainer

Smith (written in the 1950s and 1960s), FTL travel can be

accomplished through a hyperspace known as Space2.


The Rediscovery of Man - List of Instrumentality of Man stories

1 The stories are collected in more or less chronological order, according to

J. J. Pierce's admittedly speculative timeline of the Instrumentality. The timeline does not include Down to a Sunless Sea, which has no internal

clues as to its placement within Smith's chronology.


Instrumentality of Mankind

1 In the science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, the 'Instrumentality of Mankind' refers both to Smith's personal future

history and fictional universe|universe and to the central government of humanity. The Instrumentality of Mankind is also the title

of a paperback collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979 (now

superseded by the later The Rediscovery of Man, which collects all of Smith's short

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Instrumentality of Mankind - Origin and history

1 After attaining power and the expansion of humans in space, they eventually entered

a somewhat stagnant phase in which a fixed lifespan of four-hundred years was

imposed on the human inhabitants of the planets where the Instrumentality directly ruled, all the hard physical labor was done by rightless animal-derived underpeople, and children were never raised by their

biological parents


Instrumentality of Mankind - Characteristics

1 Though the Instrumentality does not directly administer every planet, it claims ultimate

guardianship over the destiny of the human race. For example, it strictly bans the export

of religion from planet to planet. Its members, the Lords and Ladies of the

Instrumentality, are collectively all-powerful and often somewhat callously arbitrary.

Although their motives are genuinely benign, they act with utmost brutality when survival

is at stake.



1 Three Lords made an emergency court; if they acted together, acted in

good faith, and reported to the computers of the Instrumentality,

they were exempt from punishment, though not from blame or even

reduction to civilian status



1 :This was all the business of the Instrumentality. The Instrumentality had the perpetual slogan 'Watch, but do not govern; stop war, but do not wage it; protect, but do not control;

and first, survive!'


Instrumentality of Mankind - Individual members

1 Some prominent Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality:


Instrumentality of Mankind - Individual members

1 'Tiga-belas' and 'Veesey-koosey', the names of supporting and main

characters of the Instrumentality story Think Blue, Count Two, also

mean 'thirteen' (Indonesian or Malay tiga meaning three, and belas being equivalent of English teen) and 'five-

six' (Finnish viisi and kuusi), respectively


Instrumentality of Mankind - Possible sources of inspiration

1 The term Lords of the Instrumentality may have been partly inspired by the Lords

Commissioners of the Admiralty, an institution of prime importance in the history of the

British Empire. The Instrumentality also has similarities to the future world government of Rudyard Kipling's short stories With the Night

Mail and As Easy as ABC. Anglican Christianity, to which Smith belonged, refers frequently to instrumentality, meaning agent

or intermediary.



1 The most likely source of Smith 's use of the term human instrumentality is

a quote by Smith Wigglesworth, a Christian Pentecostal evangelist of the early 1900s, who stated in his

work The Place of Victory (published Feb. 1916), the following:



1 The world has to be brought to a knowledge of the truth, but that will

only be brought about through human instrumentality, and that will be when the human instrument is at a place where he will say all that the

Holy Spirit directs him to say.


Instrumentality of Mankind - Selected bibliography

1 * The Rediscovery of Man (short story collection, including all of the

Instrumentality of Mankind stories)


Instrumentality

1 'Instrumentality' can refer to any of the following:


Instrumentality

1 * The science fiction book series Instrumentality of Mankind by Cordwainer

Smith


Instrumentality

1 * The Human Instrumentality Project from the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series.


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