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55Personal and

Organizational Values

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Values Defined

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Values exist not only within individuals but also in organizations where you find a corporate culture.

Values are the worth or importance you attach to different factors in your life.

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Values Versus Attitude

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Attitudes are often affected by values, and value conflicts with other people certainly involve attitude problems—but values are a deeper and, in some ways, more important part of everyone’s lives and organizations.

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Where Values Come from

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The values of parents.

The child’s environments.

The place and time period of the first few years of most people’s lives.

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New Value Patterns

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Three new value patterns have emerged since the early 1970s:

1. The nature of a person’s paid job is now much more significant.

2. Leisure time is more valued, mostly because it has become a rare commodity.

3. Americans now insist much more strongly that jobs become less impersonal, and more human and humane.

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Types of Values

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ValuesValues

Terminal ValuesTerminal Values Instrumental ValuesInstrumental Values

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Terminal values are likely to maintain a high priority throughout your life.

Instrumental values reflect the way you prefer to behave.

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What Are Your Values?

1. List at least ten activities or principles that are very important in your life and are most valuable to you.

2. List them in any order of importance to you.

3. Number them in their order or importance to you.

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What Are Your Values? continued

4. Ask someone important in your life to make the same list of what they think are your top 10 values.

5. Compare the two lists, looking for differences and similarities.

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Value Systems

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Early in the 20th century, Eduard Spraunger defined six different types of people based of their types of value systems.

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Value Systems continued

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Spraunger’s Six Value System:

1. The theoretical person2. The economic person3. The aesthetic person4. The social person5. The political animal6. The religious person

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A more recent treatment of the subject of value systems came from psychologist Clare Graves. Graves believed that people evolve through different levels of psychological existence. Graves’ Seven Value Levels describe the changing values at different points in life.

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Graves’ Seven Value Systems:

Level 1: ReactionLevel 2: TribalismLevel 3: EgocentrismLevel 4: ConformityLevel 5: Achievement Level 6: Social orientationLevel 7: Existentialism

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The Role of Integrity

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If you are living up to your own stated standards of professional conduct and appropriate behavior, you are said to have integrity (soundness of moral character).

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Personality Ethic VersusCharacter Ethic

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The most important element of success has become the personality ethic.

This personality approach has replaced what used to be the character ethic.

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Values and the Workplace

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Values are the basis for both the purpose and goals of an organization.

Organizational values directly affect relationships within the organization.

Your most important task: to figure out your value system and decide what your company stands for.

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Values Conflicts

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Values ConflictsValues Conflicts

Interpersonal Interpersonal values conflictsvalues conflicts

Personal versusPersonal versusgroup valuesgroup values

Internal Internal values conflictsvalues conflicts

Cognitive Cognitive dissonancedissonance DenialDenial Self-justificationSelf-justification

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Internal Value Conflicts

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1.You can change your original beliefs about management.

2.You can use denial.

3.You can get into self-justification.

4.You can change your own behavior.

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Values in an International Economy

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Four major areas of difference in values in other cultures:

Views of power and authority Views of the individual versus the

group Tolerance versus uncertainty The value of punctuality

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Strategy for Success 5.1:Redefining Your Personal Values—The

Rath Test

1. Did I choose this value freely, with no outside pressure?

2. Did I choose this value from several alternatives?

3. Did I consider the consequences of my choice?

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Strategy for Success 5.1:Redefining Your Personal Values—The

Rath Test continued

4. Do I like and respect this value?

5. Will I defend this value publicly?

6. Will I base my behavior on this value?

7. Do I find this value persistent throughout my life?

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Strategy for Success 5.2:Building a Character Ethic for

Integrity

1. Focus2. Respect3. Responsibility4. Pride5. Fairness and Equity6. Trust and Being Trusted

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