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Values
Clarification &
Acceptance
Value
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• As we knew a person is determined by
his/her values.
• Edwerd Spranger define the value as
"the constellation of standards, or
qualities, characteristics, or ideas that
determine a person's view of the
world.
• Those standards/idea, qualities are
likes, dislikes, viewpoints, inner
inclinational, rational and irrational
judgments, prejudices, and association
Value
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• Then values provide the basic
foundation for understanding a
person’s personality, perception and
attitudes.
Value Beliefs Perceptio Attitudes Behavior interest and
n personality
Importance of Value
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• A powerful force affecting behavior
• Values contain a judgmental element
in that they carry an individual's ideas
as to what is right or desirable
• Provide a way to understand
organization
• Help to differentiation
• Determine the retention (What I m believing in)
Personal Value
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• Personal values denote a sense of
right or wrong, good or bad, and other
judgmental criteria based on our
strong sense of what the ideal ought
to be
(desired)
• Personal values serve five
purposes in organizations
– Value serve as standards of behavior
– Guidelines for decision making and
conflict resolution
– Value effect our thought & action
– Influence on employee motivation &
Formulation of Our Value
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• 40% value is genetically determined
• Balance is given by the environmental
factors
– Culture
– Parental dictates
– Teachers
– Friends and other situations
Workforce Value
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• At the workplace
– Old value: Hard work,
conservative-traditional, loyalty
to the employer organization.
– Today value: Job satisfaction,
leisure time, loyalty to
(free)
relationship, flexibility to career.
– Negative value:
Anger, ,meanness, arrogance
(overconfidence),crookedness-
wicked, greed/lust
–
Business Value
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• Scholars identified ten fundamental
shared values for successful organization
Truth Openness
Mentoring Risk taking
Giving credit Social
Honesty conscience
Caring Responsibility &
Trust accountability
•Firm can manage itself through values and
core values
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•Office Technology
–Is it wrong to use company e-mail for personal reasons?
–Is it wrong to use office equipment to help your children or
spouse do schoolwork?
–Is it wrong to play computer games on office equipment
during the work day?
–Is it wrong to use office equipment to do internet shopping?
–Is it wrong to blame an error you made on a technological
glitch?
–Is it wrong to visit pornographic web sites using office
equipment?
Values Clarification is a difficult
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task
• There are three basic steps that are useful in Values Clarification:
– Choice - right to exercise one's freedoms in
any manner
– Value - Worth in usefulness or importance to
the possessor
– Action - something done
Values are better than Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences
• Forward-thinking
rules (vision)
The organization promotes values to guide
people. Doing this saves time because
organizations need not write rules, and need
not refer to rule books or organization manual.
Values serve as outline
goals
An explicit set of values shall form the
foundation of any organization because they
endure .(remain in existence)
Values send a message
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A good value teaches and guides the
members of the organization. A symbolic act
affirms the value over and over.
Values shape an organization
Values manifest itself in various ways. It
thrusts members to produce quality good
products. Values can shape and animate an
organization.
Core Values-
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• Respect (Admire someone or something
deeply)
• Responsibility, (The opportunity or ability
to act
independently and take
decisions
without authorization)
• Integrity (Living and working with
excellence)
• Resilience, (Elasticity)
• Care (Protection)
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• Respect is important because it
shows that one values another
as an individual, and that he
honours the personal rights and
dignity of the person as a fellow
human being. People who are
disrespectful often have few
friends and alliances, and others
do not enjoy being near them.
Responsibility
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• It is important to
be responsible because responsibility is a
sign of having good character. Irresponsible
people often break the rules, causing injury to
themselves and others.
• Being responsible is a sign of good character, maturity
and reliability, and it is a desirable personality trait for
anyone to possess. When people depend on a person to
do something, it means that others believe the person is
responsible enough to handle the task. A person who is
responsible is often perceived as a good relative,
student, mate, friend and civilian.
Integrity
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• There are several reasons
why integrity is so important.
First, living a life of
integrity means that we
never have to spend time or
energy questioning ourselves. We
are transparent, honest and ethical
in all our interactions with
employees, clients, consumers,
vendors and the public.
•
Resilience
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• Resilience can be defined as the
ability of a system, entity,
community or person to
withstand shocks while still
maintaining its essential
functions. Resilience also refers
to the ability to recover quickly
and effectively from catastrophe
and the capability to endure
Care (Protection)
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• The process of protecting someone
or something and providing what that
person or thing needs.
Harmony
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(Agreement)
• a consistent, orderly, or pleasing
arrangement of parts; congruity.
Personal values-
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Empathy, honesty, courage, commitment
• Honesty refers to a facet of
moral character and connotes
positive and virtuous attributes such
as integrity, truthfulness,
straightforwardness, including
straightforwardness of conduct, along
with the absence of lying, cheating,
theft, etc. Honestly also includes
being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and
sincere.
Commitment
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• An engagement or obligation that
restricts freedom of action.
• a willingness to give your time
and energy to something that
you believe in, or a promise or
firm decision to do something
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• Courage (also called bravery or valour)
is the choice and willingness to confront
agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or
intimidation. Physical courage is
bravery in the face of physical pain,
hardship, death or threat of death,
while moral courage is the ability to
act rightly in the face of popular
opposition, shame, scandal,
discouragement, or personal loss.
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• Empathy is the capacity to
understand or feel what another
person is experiencing from within
the other person's frame of
reference, i.e., the capacity to place
oneself in another's position.
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of
another, listening with the ears of
another and feeling with the "heart"
of another
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