How Can a Reputation Be Improved?

Reputation is known to be a ubiquitous, spontaneous, and highly efficient mechanism of social control in natural societies. It is a subject of study in social, management and technological sciences. Its influence ranges from competitive settings, like markets, to cooperative ones, like firms, organizations, institutions and communities.

Reputation acts on different levels of agency, individual and supra-individual. At the supra-individual level, it concerns groups, communities, collectives and abstract social entities (such as firms, corporations, organizations, countries, cultures and even civilizations). It affects phenomena of different scales, from everyday life to relationships between nations. Reputation is a fundamental instrument of social order, based upon distributed, spontaneous social control.

Here are six steps on how reputation can be improved

•  Always follow our word
•  Go out of your way to help others reach their goals.
•  Go a step beyond what is expected. 
•  Act with integrity. 
•  Get engaged with your community
• Always be faithful to people serving under you