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The document discusses values and how they affect choices and decisions. Values are ideas and beliefs that vary between individuals and are influenced by many factors. The document also discusses how values guide decisions and how knowing one's values is important for career and life choices.

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Values PowerPoint

The document discusses values and how they affect choices and decisions. Values are ideas and beliefs that vary between individuals and are influenced by many factors. The document also discusses how values guide decisions and how knowing one's values is important for career and life choices.

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Values

Learning Objectives:
• Students will define a value.
• Students will identify three of their
personal values.
• Students will state how their values
affect their choices in everyday living
• Consider the following scenario:
Kick-off • You must leave your house quickly, within 10 minutes, and never
Discussion: return. You can only take three items with you.
• What do you take?
• Why did you choose these items?
• Values are your ideas and beliefs.
Values: • Each person has different values.
• Our values are based on many aspects including
Main ideas family, religion, peers, culture, race, social
background, gender, etc.
• Our values help us decide what is important, or not, in
our life.
• Values impact our decisions every day.
• Knowing your values is important because values
guide decisions about our future.
• Not only is the career itself important, but sometimes
what the career can offer (i.e. lots of money, status,
relationships, meaningful work) satisfies a person’s
values.
 Is capital punishment right or wrong?

Values  Is a desire for power good or bad?


 The answers to these questions are value-laden.
 Values represent basic convictions that “a specific mode of conduct or end
state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or
converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence.”
 Values contain a judgmental element because they carry an individual’s
ideas about what is right, good, or desirable. They have both content and
intensity attributes. The content attribute says a mode of conduct or end-
state of existence is important. The intensity attribute specifies how
important it is. When we rank values in terms of intensity, we obtain that
person’s value system.
 We all have a hierarchy of values according to the relative importance
The Importance we assign to values such as freedom, pleasure, self-respect, honesty,
obedience, and equality. Values tend to be relatively stable and
and enduring.86 Many of the values we hold are established in our early
years—by parents, teachers, friends, and others. If we question our
Organization of values, they may change, but more often they are reinforced. There is
values also evidence linking personality to values, implying our values may be
partly determined by genetically transmitted traits.87 Open people,
for example, may be more politically liberal, whereas conscientious
people may place a greater value on safe and ethical conduct. To
explore the topic further, we will discuss the importance and
organization of values first.
 Values lay the foundation for understanding attitudes and motivation,
and they influence our perceptions. We enter an organization with
preconceived notions of what “ought” and “ought not” to be. These
notions contain our interpretations of right and wrong and our
preferences for certain behaviors or outcomes. Regardless of whether
they clarify or bias our judgment, our values influence our attitudes and
behaviors at work.

 While values can sometimes augment decision making, at times they can
cloud objectivity and rationality.88 Suppose you enter an organization
with the view that allocating pay on the basis of performance is right,
while allocating pay on the basis of seniority is wrong. How will you react
if you find the organization you’ve just joined rewards seniority and not
performance? You’re likely to be disappointed—this can lead to job
dissatisfaction and a decision not to exert a high level of effort because
“It’s probably not going to lead to more money anyway.” Would your
attitudes and behavior be different if your values aligned with the
organization’s pay policies?
Terminal Versus  How can we organize values? One researcher—Milton Rokeach—
argued that we can separate them into two categories
1) Terminal Values
Instrumental terminal values, refers to desirable end-states. These are the goals a
Values person would like to achieve during a lifetime.
Examples of terminal values are prosperity and economic success,
freedom, health and well-being, world peace, and meaning in life.

2) Instrumental Values
instrumental values, refers to preferable modes of behavior, or
means of achieving the terminal values.
Examples of instrumental values are autonomy and self-reliance,
personal discipline, kindness, and goal-orientation
Dominant Work
Values in today’s
Workforce
• Why did the person act this way?
Classroom • What personal values might have caused them to act in this way?
Discussion: • Name a value that is important to them.
• How does this value show up in your actions?
Values • In decision making?
• In the way you relate to others?
Values Word
Wall
Adventure/Fun Friendship/Family

Money/Wealth Justice/Honesty

Spirituality/Religion Knowledge/Education
• Put these value cards in order from 1 through 6
Values Word • 1 being very important, 3-4 being somewhat important, and 6 being least
important
Wall Extension: • No right or wrong answers

What’s Important to • When finished, compare with a partner.


Me? Activity • Was their ranking similar or different?
• Share why you put the cards in a particular order.

1 2 3 4 5
6
Very important Somewhat important Least
Understanding
Yourself Puzzle
Activity

Create your own self-identity puzzle


by adding personal value statements
through writing or drawing. Design
and share with your peers!
“People with certain values and needs are best suited
Values in Career for jobs that have requirements that correspond with
Activity: those characteristics.”
(Dawis and Lofquist’s, 1984)
Theory of Work
Adjustment
• Explains the interaction between an individual and a work environment.
• The individual brings a set of skills to perform the tasks of the work
setting.
• In exchange, the individual receives a paycheck.
• Ongoing adjustment by the individual and the work environment is
required to maintain positive interaction (called work adjustment).
• Work adjustment leads to satisfaction of both individual and work setting.
Values in Career
Activity: Achievement Relationships

Independence Support

Recognition Working Conditions

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