Culteral Values
Personal Values
Personal values are the traits and characteristics learned and implanted through living. Parents play a huge role in helping to formulate a foundation for personal values by providing building blocks for what becomes the individual's understanding and application of honesty, reliability, and trust. But, these values are continuously challenged in today's business sector where the attitude of "eat or get eaten" is foremost and the "it's not personal, it's business" justification prevails.
Personal values are becoming an extinct commodity in the corporate world. They are being replaced by the pseudo organizational values that management or shareholders have disguised as "corporate" organizational values. Only when the blinders come off can we see the truth in how pseudo organizational values run counter to true organizational values. The pseudo organizational values are primarily tools used by management to motivate employees to "
do anything to get the deal," and "
keep all deal information to yourself" in order to make the numbers for shareholders.
Organizational Values
Organizations as a whole appear as reputable companies on the outside and yet are quite often very different on the inside. Organizational values are more often aligned with getting ahead and growing a business at any cost versus attaining the same goals using a more personal value related process. In an article published by Debt Cubed, "Choosing The Proper Course Between Two Conflicting Values Is One Of The Hardest Decisions A Leader Can Make," Kelly Newcomb stated one company's management mantra as "
if a company's objective is to be profitable and create shareholder value, then complete loyalty to an under-performing manager is a violation of the company's values." In the same article, Newcomb further stated another more productive company's management rule, "Do what is right for the customer." As you can see, both styles of doing...
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