"Being Brilliant but having no 'Integrity' is like a police person with pistol wanting to randomly kill instead of protecting citizens against the criminals.. " Master Mentors..
Organizational Values are the qualities that guide the people in an organization in their day-to-day behaviors while they executive the strategies to achieve the mission and the long term vision of the organization.
Values have an inextricable link to the organizational culture.
A value driven culture in which there is a strong alignment between the Organizational values and the Personal values of most of the employees is the key to the success of any Organization.
While every organization is value driven, the successful organizations consciously work on outlining and articulating the right values and align the organizations as per the same by ensuring the values are shared by all the employees and ingrained into their behavior. Most of the organizations drift along without a conscious effort, leading to sporadic success or failure or a mediocre performance that never stands out.
Some common examples of values are as follows:
accomplishment, accountability, accuracy, achievement, ambition, balance, challenge, collaboration, compassion, competency, courage, credibility, dedication, dependability, dignity, diligence, discipline, diversity,efficiency, empathy, empowerment, enjoyment, environment-friendly, equality, excellence, flexibility, friendliness, fun, generosity, honesty, impartiality, improvement, independence, individuality, influence, innovativeness, integrity, learning, loyalty, optimism, persistence, professionalism, quality, questioning, responsibility, respect, security, service, sincerity, staff well-being, stewardship, teamwork, etc.
While achievement, balance, diligence, empathy, honesty, impartiality,learning, professionalism are rated as the top personal values of a number of successful persons, accomplishment, dependability, empathy, excellence, honesty, impartiality, integrity, professionalism, respect, service and teamwork are highly rated by most of the successful organizations.
While personal values vary from person to person, Organisational values vary from entity to entity.
Normally organizations define values at the highest level and take a number of actions to percolate them across the organization. Selection of employees with matching values, demonstration of values at the top level, reinforcement and reiteration of the values at every level and at possible occasions, reward systems to encourage right values and deterrent actions like demotions, transfers, suspensions, decrements etc. when an individual demonstrates undesirable values are some of the steps taken by the organizations to achieve a value fit and alignment across the entities.
In successful organizations, there is a high degree of co-relation between desired, stated and exhibited values across the organizations unlike in mediocre organizations where, the values espoused are mostly on paper and never propagated, exhibited and internalised.
Alignment of values in organizations thus enables successful organizations to achieve their vision through common norms of behavior across the organizations.
Normally organizations define values at the highest level and take a number of actions to percolate them across the organization. Selection of employees with matching values, demonstration of values at the top level, reinforcement and reiteration of the values at every level and at possible occasions, reward systems to encourage right values and deterrent actions like demotions, transfers, suspensions, decrements etc. when an individual demonstrates undesirable values are some of the steps taken by the organizations to achieve a value fit and alignment across the entities.
In successful organizations, there is a high degree of co-relation between desired, stated and exhibited values across the organizations unlike in mediocre organizations where, the values espoused are mostly on paper and never propagated, exhibited and internalised.
Alignment of values in organizations thus enables successful organizations to achieve their vision through common norms of behavior across the organizations.
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