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cultural values Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine how personal, organizational, and cultural values affect decision making in my personal and professional
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Society is built upon values and beliefs of what people feel are important. Values within the American culture can be quite different. My values and beliefs originated from my God fearing parents. Being raised, disciplined, and loved by my parents helped me to develop my personal value system.
As a young child, my thoughts, my ideas, and my behavior were immature. When there was a family gathering or family outing, I would run around, touch things that were not to be touched, and had to be told more than once to stop misbehaving. Through the discipline that my parents brought upon me, whether it is a spanking or taking away my privileges, I learned very quickly on how to conduct myself in public.
"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." (Proverbs 29:15). Notice that God, here, says, "the rod and the reproof." He puts spanking and verbal instruction (correction) in the same process. Both of those together will point the child in the right direction, to correct behavior
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So we parents are to give them "wisdom." This is knowledge and understanding to do what is right. We do this through punishment and verbal teaching. If we fail to do this (if we are absentee-parents, as it were), we are going to create a monster (Ritenbaugh, 1999).
My parents' disciplinary actions and the way they reverenced themselves were my guides to form my personal values. Pastor David Peters of Church of the Great God states it nicely:
Most of us acquired our personal ethics over time, primarily from family members, teachers, religion, friends, and social and professional interactions. While a good source to help us choose between right and wrong, these are not always the best sources. The beliefs of individuals (like parents and teachers) and organizations (like the church and corporations) vary over time
(Peters, 2003).
As I entered into my teenage and pre-adulthood, my values were...
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