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Work Fulfillment: Why Values Matter

This course explores the significance of values in guiding personal and professional conduct, emphasizing the importance of aligning values with missions and goals to achieve fulfillment. Participants will learn to clarify their values, assess harmony and dissonance, and develop strategies for dealing with conflicting values. The role of values in shaping personal, cultural, social, and work contexts will be examined, along with strategies for resolving differences and relating values to success factors at work. Through interactive exercises, participants will gain insights into the dynamic nature of values and their impact on decision-making and fulfillment.

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Work Fulfillment: Why Values Matter

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  1. Work Fulfillment:Why Values Matter

  2. Learning Objectives • Develop a clear understanding of the meaning of values • Develop an appreciation for the role of values in life and work • Develop a perspective on the role of values relative to Personal and Institutional Mission and Goals • Engage in a learning exercise to clarify/affirm personal values

  3. Learning Objectivescont. • Engage in a learning exercise to assess harmony and dissonance in values • Develop an understanding of alternative strategies for dealing with conflicting values • Develop an understanding of strategies for resolving differences • Engage in a learning exercise to relate my values to my success factors atwork

  4. The Meaning of Values • Definition • Values are ideals that guide or qualify one’s personal conduct, interactions with others, and involvement in career choices • They help distinguish what is right from what is wrong • They inform on how one can conduct life in a meaningful way

  5. The Role of Values • Personal Values • Principles that define you as an individual • Determine how you perceive the world and engage with it • Cultural Values • Principles that sustain connections with your cultural roots • Help you feel connected to a larger community of people with similar backgrounds

  6. The Role of Valuescont. • Social Values • Principles that govern how you relate to others • Help structure meaningful relationships in social situations: family, friends, co-workers • Work Values • Principles that guide your behavior in professional contexts • Defines your work relationships and integrity in performance

  7. Strategic Properties of Values • Values are dynamic—they can change over time • Values are influenced by developmental phases of life • Values are a reflection of self-esteem/self-worth • Values are reflected by personal behavior as much or more than by what we say

  8. Values Relative to Mission and Goals • Values • Principles which assess alignment or misalignment with the Mission • What it takes to fulfill the Mission and in what character it will be done • Mission • The summary statement of purpose • The specific task with which a person or group is charged

  9. Values Relative to Mission and Goalscont. • Goals • The strategies by which the Mission will be fulfilled • The measurable outcomes by which success is determined

  10. Matters of Harmony and Dissonance in Values • Harmony • The degree to which a belief or action is congruent with other beliefs and actions • The experience of the belief or action being syntonic (responsive and adaptive) to the whole picture • Dissonance • The inconsistency between the belief’s one holds or between one’s actions and one’s beliefs • The experience of being incongruent (disharmony among the constituent parts)

  11. Learning Exercises • Clarifying/Affirming Personal Values • Personal Values Checklist • Assessing Harmony and Dissonance in Values • Personal Values and University Values

  12. Examples of Conflicting Values • Advancement and promotion vs Family • Creativity vs Security • Stability vs Location • Close relationships vs Time Freedom • Fame vs Serenity • Freedom vs Responsibility and accountability

  13. Strategies for Dealing with Conflicting Values • Assess the Core Values: Can the values accommodate what I’m looking for • Resolve personal conflicts first: Establish internal consistency

  14. Strategies for Dealing with Conflicting Valuescont. • Review boundaries: “What is mine; what is not mine” • Re-commit to values: Either to existing values or new values

  15. Strategies for Resolving Differences • Communication: • Straightforward Positioning • Active Listening • Determine any options for deference (clarify boundaries) • Determine any grounds for negotiation

  16. Strategies for Resolving Differencescont. • Review other options: Creativity and Innovation • ‘Letting go’ on principle

  17. Learning Exercise • Relating personal values to success factors at work • Personal Values Checklist and Lehigh’s Core and Managerial Success Factors

  18. Summary • Values are the ideals that give us a foundational reference point in all of our important life decisions/choices • Values serve as the rationale for the Mission we subscribe to and the catalyst for the Goals that we determine to pursue

  19. Summarycont. • Values register as either congruent (harmony) or incongruent (dissonance) as we make commitments in our life • Values ultimately guide us to make choices about what we can and cannot tolerate in our lives and remain fulfilled in our daily commitments

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