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Module Title: - Demonstrating Work Values

Module Description:-This module covers the knowledge, skills and attitude in demonstrating proper work
values.
Learning Out Comes (Objectives)
At the end of this module the trainees will be able to:-
Define the purpose of work
Apply work values/Ethics
Deal with ethical Problems
Maintain& integrity of conduct in the workplace
Module Content
1. Define the purpose of work(define one’s unique sense of purpose for working)
2. Apply work values/ethics
Work Values/ethics/ concepts
 Commitment & Dedication
 Sense of Urgency
 Sense of Purpose
 Love for work
 Orderliness
 Sense of responsibility
 Goal Oriented
 Competence
 Reliability & Dependability
 High Motivation
 Being knowledgeable
 Sensitivity to others
 Compassion/carrying/attitude
 Sense of Nationalism
 Balancing between family& work
 Loyalty to work/company
Work Practice

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 Quality of work
 Punctuality
 Efficiency
 Effectiveness
 Innovativeness& Creativity
 Productivity & 5s, Cost –Consciousness, Resourcefulness and Attention to
details
Company resources
 Consumable materials
 Equipment & Machines
 Human & Time
 Financial resources
3. Dealing with ethical problems
3.1 Company ethical standards, organizational policy & guidelines
3.2 Work incidents/situations
 Violet/ intense dispute or argument
 Gambling
 Falsification
 Pilferage
 Vandalism
 Bribery
 Black mail
 Sexual harassment
 Damage to person or property
 Use of prohibited substances
Learning Strategies and Methods
A. Learning Strategies
 Learner-centered
 Flexible
 Off and on-job training integrated

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 Consideration of both individuals’ vs. group based practice/exercises

 Holistic projects
B. Learning methods
 Discussion
 Lecture
 Demonstration
 Project
 Practical exercise
C. Resource condition
 Training, Teaching and learning materials
 Reference books and manuals
 Visual training media
 Overhead projector
 Black & white board (preferably magnetic)
 Flipchart, Illustration, Pictures and Models
 Required building facilities(classrooms, workshops) tools, machines,
equipments and materials of the course as needed.
 Budget for training operations, maintenances, repairs and replacements.
Budgets for regular visits to construction exhibitions and building sites for
technology updates.
D. Module Assessment:-
1. Assessment of the module should be based on the evaluation of the
learning outcomes with the reference to the performance criteria indicated
in the respect EOS for the occupation.
2. Competency may be assessed through:-
 Practical assessment
Interview, Oral and Observation
 Theoretical exam.
 Portfolio assessment(certificate from training providers)

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Introduction
Demonstrating Work Values
Purpose/function/ of work
 The minimum energy needed to remove a conduction electron from metal.
 The minimum quality of energy that is required to remove an electron to infinity from the
surface of a given solid.
Work Values/Ethics
Work values/ethics is a set of values based on hard work.
What are work values?
If you are interested in turning your internship in to a job after, it is important to know exactly
what employees look for when hiring full time employee.
In addition to relevant skills, employers seek employees who have the personal value,
characteristics; personal traits that spell success good personal values are what make the
foundation for a good employee.
Top ten Values employers look for in employees:-
1. Strong work ethic: - Who understand and posses a willingness to work hard.
2. Dependability & responsibility: - Who come to work on time, when they are suppose to be,
are responsible for their action and behaviors.
3. Possessing a positive attitude: - Who take the initiation and have the motivation to get the
job done a responsible period of time.
4. Adaptability: - Who are adaptable and maintain flexibility in completing tasks in an ever
changing workplace. Being open to change and improvements provides an opportunity to
complete work assessment in a more efficient manner. While offering additional benefits to
the corporation, the customers, even the employees.
Adaptability also means adapting to the personality and work habit of co-workers.
5. Honesty and integrity:- Who maintain a sense of honesty and integrity above all else,
Good relationships are built on trust, when working for an employer; they want to know that
they can trust what you say and what you do.
6. Self-motivated:- Employers look for employees who require little supervision and direction
to get the work done in a timely and professional manners.

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7. Motivated to growth & team: - In an every changing workplace, employers seek employees
who are interested in keeping up with new developments and knowledge in the field.
8. Strong self-confidence:- It has been recognized as the key ingredients between someone
who is successful and someone who is not.
9. Professionalism: - Who exhibit professional behavior at all times, personal behavior
includes learning every aspects of a job and doing it to the best of one’s ability.
10. Loyalty:- Employer value employees they can trust and who exhibit their loyalty in the
work force has taken on a new meaning.
Ways to be happy at work
1. Choose to be happy at work: - happiness is largely a choice. I can hear many of you
arguing with me. But it is true; you can choose to be happy at work.
2. Do something you love every single day: - take a look at yourself your skills,
interests and find something that you can enjoy doing every day. If you do
something you love every single day, your current job won’t seem so bad, of
course you can always.
3. Take charge of your own professional and personal development:- Take
charge of your own growth , ask for specific and meaningful help form your boss,
you have the most gain form growing and the most lost, if you stand still.
4. Take responsibility for knowing what is happing at work: - Develop an
information network and use it.
5. Ask for feedback frequently:- Ask your boss for feedback tell him you hard
really like to hear his assignment of your work, take to your customers too, if you
are serving than well, their feedback is affirming ,you are responsible for your
own development.
6. Make only commitment, you can keep: - one of the most serious cause of work
stress and unhappiness is failing to keep commitment, performing the task
promised, create a system of organization and planning that enables you to assess
your ability to complete a required commitment.

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7. Avoid negativity: - Choosing to be happy at work means avoiding negative

conversation, gossip, and unhappy people as much as possible, no matter how
positively you tell.
8. Practice professional coverage:-If you are like most people you don’t like
conflict.
9. Make friends: - take time to get to know them, you might actually like and enjoy
them, you network provides support, resource, sharing and caring.
10. If all else fails, job searching will make you smile.
Work Value Concepts
 Commitment/dedication: - understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in
yourself, vision, hard work and determinations. Dedication or commitment is the act of
concreting an alter, temple, church or other sacred building. It also refers to the
inscription of books or other artifacts.
 Sense of urgency: - Drive people companies & countries to work much harder than
normal and the common traits of highly productive people, companies and countries. As
you can see, a tough of it can transform a person, company or a country to be highly
productive.
1. Set a challenging goal with a dead line.
2. Set a minimum time to work on something.
3. Make yourself accountable.
4. See yourself to be in the losing side.
5. Be aware of potential danger.
 Sense of Purpose: - The quality of having a definite purpose, purposefulness and
meaningfulness. The quality of having great value or significant.
 Love for work: - If you work from home you probably spend more time on the
phone and less time doing work find out how to keep the balance between work.
 Orderliness: - It is associated with other qualities such as cleanliness, diligence
the desire for order and symmetry. Having a sense of where things belong and
how they relate to each other and keeping them organized (I want to arrange
myself and my surroundings to achieve the greatest efficiency, the quality or state

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of being orderly, also systematic functioning perhaps the most fundamental form
of organization is taking to higher.
 Sense of responsibility:- An awareness of your obligations, sense a general
conscious, sense of duty, a sense of should, ought to, have to.
 Goal Oriented: - The concept of goal orientation was developed to describe
variability in dispositional or situational goal.
 Competence: - It is possession and application of skills, knowledge and attitudes
to perform work activities.
Dimensions of Competence
 Task skills:-To perform a single task.
 Task management skills: - To perform two or more tasks as the same time.
 Contingency management skills: - To respond to irregularities and breakdowns in
routine.
 Job/role environment management skills:- Deal with the responsibilities and
expectations of work environment.
 Dependability and Reliability: - Dependability is a value showing the reliability of a
person to others because of his/her integrity and truthfulness.
Reliability is reliable, responsible and dependable in fulfilling obligations.
 High Motivation:- Characteristics of trainees with high motivation, the trainer plays the
most important role in trainee motivation. Effective management in business workplace is
critical to positive employee motivation and high employee moral. Every person has
different reasons for working, the reasons for working are as individuals as the person.
But we all work because we obtain something that we need from work. The something
obtained from work impacts moral, employee motivation and the quality of life. To create
positive employee, treat employees as if they matter because employees matter.
 Being knowledgeable:- Inquiring leads you, as an individuals, to learning, when you
learn, you become better and others around you respond, usually sub-consciously, by
growing themselves you can also learn to ask others questions in away that helps them
evaluate their lives and thoughts and gain grow from the experience.

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 Sensitivity to others:- Reasons for using the skill, showing sensitivity to others. If you
help others they are more likely to help you and saying you are sorry shows that you can
take responsible for your actions and can admit when you have done something wrong. A
disability does not make a person inferior. Helping people with disabilities and treating
everyone equally shows that you belief that although people are different, they all deserve
respect. If you see someone in trouble, ask if you can help. Sometimes just showing you
care is enough to help a person get through a difficult time.
Be ready to help a disabled person when necessary by doing such things as holding open a door,
carrying a package or giving up your seat, do not stare at disabled people or make comments
about their special needs, do not make jokes or rude comments about the color of someone’s skin
or what he and she beliefs.

 Compassion attitude:- True compassion is not just an emotional response but firm
commitment founded on reason, therefore, compassionate attitude towards others does
not change even if they behave negatively.
Perceptions and attitudes towards one’s self, others and immediate problems.
 Sense of nationalism:- It is apolitical ideology that involves a strong identification of a
group individuals with a political entity defined in national terms. Primary importance on
the belief that one state is naturally superior to all other states. Used to describe a
movement to establish or protect a homeland for an ethic group, in some cases the
identification of a national culture is combined with a negative view of other races or
cultures.
Work Practice
Safe work practice for everyone, the human body is healthiest when it is moving, working in
same position for along period of time.
Quality of Work
Quality of work is a variable, high quality is remanufactured, law quality is repaired, how
to improve quality of work? Every kind of work required proper input by talented people in
related to that work,
1. Self-motivated

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2. Friendly environment
3. Upgrade myself in training course
4. Proper planning
Punctuality: - It is the characteristics of being able to complete a required task or fulfill
obligations before or at a time. Acting or arriving exactly at the time appointed.
Efficiency: - In general describes the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended
task or purpose. To economists, it is a relationship between ends and means, when we call a
situation in efficient. It is a new way of time management, organizing, optimizing and creating
more productivity in your life. Efficiency is doing thing right but effectiveness is doing the right
thing.
Effectiveness: - Effectiveness means the ability of producing an effect and is most frequently
used in connection with the degree to which something is capable of producing a specific desired
effort. The degrees to which objectives are achieved and the extent to which targeted problems
are solved.

Innovativeness: - The quality of being novel, freshness, new fangledness, novelty, originality,
the signers principle at the heart of creativity is risk and value, key learning elements and
understanding the skill and imagination to create new things.
Productivity: - It is a measure of output from a production process, per unit of the input.
For example labor productivity is typically measured a ratio of output per labor hour and input.
Kaizen: - means kai-change and zen-good or for better, so kaizen is change for better and
continuous improvement.
5s:- It is a systematized approach to organize work areas keeps rules and standards, it is good
housekeeping and workplace.
Results of 5s:- improve profitability, efficiency /effectively, service and safety
1. Sort (arranging):- taking out of disposing unnecessary items.
2. Systematize: - organization of necessary items in a good order and easily access.
3. Sweep (clean):- Cleaning of the workshop and ordered items.
4. Standardize:- maintaining the workplace in a high standard of housekeeping;
5. Self-discipline (sustain):- Doing things spontaneously without being told.

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Cost-consciousness:- observe cost saving habits, assess needs and resources, requests for the
right king (quality) of materials, avoid wastefulness ,shows resourcefulness at all times.
Company resources;- There are so many company resources, such as consumable materials,
equipments and machines, human, time and financial resources.
Dealing with Ethical Problems
Company ethical standards, organization policy and guidelines:-
Essential steps for ethical problem solving:-
1. Determine whether there is an ethical issue.
2. Identify the key values and principles involved.
3. Rank the values or ethical principles which is your professional judgment are
must relevant to the issue (justify reasons).
4. Develop an action plan that is consistent with the ethical principles that have been
determined as central to the issue.(with client)
5. Implement your plan, utilizing the most appropriate practice skills and
competencies (take appropriate action).
6. Reflect on the outcome of this ethical decision making process.
Work incident (situation)
 Gambling:- It is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with
an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of wining additional money.
 Falsification;- To state untruthfully, misrepresent, to make false by altering or adding
to falsify testimony (to make untrue statement, lies). The act of determining the
properties of some things, usually by research or calculation.
 Pilferage:- the act of stealing small amounts or small articles. The act or practice of
stealing small qualities or articles & also the act of taking something from someone
unlawfully.
 Vandalism:- It is a criminal act against properly but when it is your properly being
damaged , it affects on a personal level. Vandalism is the behavior attributed originally
to the vandals, by the romans, in respect of culture, truth less destruction or spoiling of
anything. Criminal damage, such as defacement directed towards any property without
permission of the owner.

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 Bribery:- A form of corruption, is an act implying money or gift given that alters the
behavior of the recipients are payments or other types of compensation made in order to
influence and gain profit from an individuals.
 Black-mail: - Refers to a situation that arises when a person threats another person
with form of punishment. A method of trying to persuade someone to do something by
making them feels quality.
 Sexual Harassment:- It is a form of sex-discrimination ,the legal definition of sexual
harassment is unwell come verbal, visual or physical conduct of a sexual nature that is
serve or pervasive and affects working conditions or creates a hostile work
environment.
For example:- verbal or written sexual harassment –comments about clothing , personal
behavior, or a person’s body sexual or sex based jokes.
Example of physical sexual harassment-blocking movement, in appropriate touching of a
person or a person’s cloth, kissing, and hugging.
Examples of non-verbal sexual harassment-Looking up and down a person’s body, gestures or
facial expression of a sexual nature, following a person.
Example of visual sexual harassment- posters, drawings, pictures, screen savers, or emails of
a sexual nature.

Maintaining integrity of conduct in the workplace

Personal work practice and value instructions:-Either verbal or written.
Company code of conduct/ value:- accountable for own action and outcomes, demonstrate
awareness and acceptance of the diversity by being polite and considerate foster an environment
that recognizes the various needs of individuals.
Continuously develop and demonstrate behavior that fosters a positive working and teaching
environment.
Use clear and concise language, appropriate methods for giving directions and providing
constructive feedback. Remember your body language. Treat all individuals as valuable member
of the team.

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Participating the values and standards that have guided this company for more than 100 years.
Strategic goals and priorities, excellent care for all act, the best example of company code of
conduct/ value is RESPECT.

RESPECT Means:-
R: - Responsibility
E: - Etiquette
S: - Support
P: - Professionalism
E: - Education
C: - Communication
T: - Team work

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