Personal Values

Personal Values

Nestor I.Guzmán

Management- MGT/521

University of Phoenix

1 June 2010

Dr. Wilfredo Del Valle

Personal Values

After completing the Williams Institute Ethics Inventory self-assessment on our student website, I found out a few things about myself. According to [EAI] (Williams Institute for Ethics and Management [WIEM], 2003), "my ethical overview is based strongly on obligation, and…vulnerable to the equity aspect. The EAI affirms that my ethical overview is established on "an individual's duty or obligation to do what is morally right…" (WIEM, 2003). In this author’s professional and personal experience, this implies that one endorses to seek behind the person's actions to dictate intention, rather than measure on results, no matter what the outcome might be. The EAI promotes his belief that individuals have the privilege to basic rights, and consequently, we must respect the rights of others, when we act. "The ends do not justify the means" (WIEM, 2003). Accordingly, this author believes that team members have an obligation to offer ideas and provide decisions which benefits the whole, without affecting or interfering with the rights of the individuals.

The term value has been defined as “an enduring prescriptive or proscriptive belief that a specific end state of existence or a specific mode of conduct is preferred to an opposite end state or mode of conduct for living one's life” (Kahle, 1983; Rokeach, 1968, 1973). According to social adaptation theory (Kahle, 1983; Pinter & Kahle, 1984), “values are the most abstract of the large number of social cognitions that function to facilitate an individual's adaptation to his or her environment. Therefore, values indicate modes of behaviors.” As I understand of this definition, everyone that you will work with during your professional career will have different backgrounds and have been raised with different values, and is up to us as individual to work with those modes of...