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Values
Clarification &
Acceptance
 Value Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences

• 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 patterns.
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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 ValueAmity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences

• 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 (desired)

be
• 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 & perception
– Influence on attitude and behavior
 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, (free)

loyalty to relationship, flexibility to career.

– Negative value: Anger, ,meanness, arrogance
(overconfidence),crookedness-wicked,
greed/lust
– Positive value: Integrity, honesty, truthfulness,
kind heartedness, humility
 Business ValueAmity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences

• 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 task
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• 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 rules
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• Forward-thinking (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.
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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)
• Harmony (Agreement)
Respect Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences

• 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 Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences

• 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 Amity Institute of Behavioural & Allied Sciences

• 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.
• When we listen to our hearts and do the right thing, life
becomes simple.
 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 greater stress.
 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.
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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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