Cultural Values

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The purpose of this paper is to examine how personal, organizational, and cultural values affect decision making in my personal and professional life. My cultural, organizational and personal values represent my beliefs and traditions of my cultural environment. Through my research, I examined values and based them on how important they are within my personal, organizational, work, and cultural lifestyle. Based on the research, I came to the conclusion knowing the foundational elements of individual behavior can be very rewarding. Values do not act individually, but also relate with other values as well. The dynamic between individual values is almost as important as the values themselves. From what I learned between research …show more content…

Effective team leaders and business executives build common values among the people they lead (Articulo,2002). A person's environment and life experiences shape their values. Moreover, social systems such as business organizations, schools, and churches influence my personal values as well. Values are important at the workplace. It is also important for workers to understand values and their ideals and expectations in the workplace. The universal desire of

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workers to be satisfied in their job, in their career and even with their life, could be helped if they understood and if they could harmonize their personal, and workplace values (Articulo,2002).
My work values include, being creative, working my hardest, honesty, and loyalty to fellow coworkers. Knowing how my values influence decisions, has proven to be power benefit in matching people to the right job, building Effective teams, developing realistic plans for personal and organizational growth, and for creating an accepting cooperative, and productive organization .Values influence my decisions and actions knowing what I can value in the workplace. Knowing what I value is key to improving my capacity to make decisions which lead to better results. Some businesses require that organizations have a thorough understanding of ethics, so that appropriate decisions can be made when dilemmas arise. Appropriate

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