What is Values

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Something that is regarded as desirable, worthy, right or as a belief in human attributes. Learn more in: Personal Values of Managers as a Driver of Innovativeness

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Standards or guiding principles that people have and use to determine which types of behavior, events, situations and outcomes are desirable or undesirable. Learn more in: Neo-Tribes or Subcultures?: The Nature of Subcultures in Large Complex Organizations

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Beliefs, ethics, or principles that create a set of informal rules that regulate the behavior of a group or people bound by a common purpose ( Feldman, 2001 ). Learn more in: Value-Based Leadership and Personality Type: The Influence on Organizational Change

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A set of important principles and ethos by which an individual or a group of people are bound. Learn more in: Child Protection and Development in Nigeria: Towards a More Functional Media Intervention

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Assumptions that determine what is ethical, what is wright, what is desirable and provide a foundation to human behaviors. Learn more in: The Role of Strategic Leadership in Building the Geocentric Culture of Global Corporations

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“Enduring beliefs that a specific mode of conduct is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence” ( Rokeach, 1968 , p. 160). Learn more in: Predicting Behavioral Intentions Toward Sustainable Fashion Consumption: A Comparison of Attitude-Behavior and Value-Behavior Consistency Models

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Concepts or ideas which one holds dear and often drives such behavior as decision making and/or problem solving Learn more in: Using Postmodernism to Effectively Teach in Diverse Settings

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Principles or rules, covering dos and don’ts of right behavior in a society, culture, or religion. Learn more in: Technology in Child's Right to Self-Development

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The positive and negative judgments that people assign to ways of being in the world. Each individual has a core of underlying values that contribute to that individual’s system of beliefs, ideas and/or opinions. A value system is in essence the ordering and prioritisation of ideals that an individual or society recognises as important. Learn more in: Intercultural Communication between East and West: Implications for Students on Study Abroad Programs to China

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Important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable. They are what the civilized and rational minds cherish, esteem, price preciously and have inclined attitude for. They are principles or standards of a person or society for the good or benefit of the person or the society concerned. Learn more in: Indigenous Knowledge Systems

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A basic principles and beliefs according to which people direct their lives and behaviors. Learn more in: Hidden Curriculum and School Culture as Postulates of a Better Society

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The desirable objects, goals, or behaviors applied as normative standards to judge and to choose among alternative actions by individual. Learn more in: What Makes Them Stay and Go?: Best Practices for Engaging Gen Y Female Professionals in the Critical Arabian Gulf Petroleum Industry

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Refer to thoughts and/or ideas that elicit an emotional response. Learn more in: Management Education for Integrity: Raising Ethical Standards in Online Management Classes

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Principles to which an individual or organization subscribes. Learn more in: Selecting Open Source Software for Use in Schools

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Normative elements and mediators that guide development actors from the ethical perspective in their endeavors. Learn more in: Advocacy as a Strategy for Sustainable Development and Economic Growth: What Civil Society Organizations Need to Know

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A core set of beliefs about how a person ought to behave and what should be done in certain situations and are related to peoples’ perceptions, views, and attitudes. Learn more in: Congruency in Higher Learning: Developing Sustainable Adult Education Program Policies for the Digital Age

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Something that means a lot to you, which you do not give up easily. Organizational values define the “range” of thinking and emotions, developing and operating the company. They are the background of the culture. Learn more in: Socially Responsible Culture and Personal Values as Organizational Competitiveness Factors

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A set of important principles and ethos by which an individual or a group of people are bound. Learn more in: Media and Cultural Contents for Early Childhood Education in Nigeria

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The ideals and social customs that can be associated with individuals or a group. Learn more in: How Business School Research Values Shape the Student Experience

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The notion is associated with principles, beliefs, ideals, codes, attitudes and norms. Values can be tangible (quantifiable) and intangible (qualitative) in nature. These notions help to make up the culture of the organization. Humanizing the economy transforms the structure of society to consolidate societal values in support of social inclusion and cohesion. The relationship between these values, namely, justice, freedom and solidarity, lies in the internalized trust imparted by the economic stakeholder. Learn more in: Education: Instrument for Socio-Economic and Humanizing Development

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The personal measurement of importance a person places on another person, or actions, objects, or properties; often associated with morals and ethics. Learn more in: Identifying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Curricula of Leading U.S. Executive MBA Programs

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Ideas that are given positive thought. Learn more in: Creating a Vision for Special Education Programs

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Beliefs, ethics, or principles that create a set of informal rules that regulate the behavior of a group or people bound by a common purpose ( Feldman, 2001 ). Learn more in: Organizational Culture and Ethics: The Influence Organizational and Personal Values Have on Perceptions of Misconduct and the Factors of Whistleblowing

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Student thinking that demonstrates an understanding of communication principles that appreciate principles such as freedom, democracy, ethics, honesty, and character. Learn more in: A Case Study of Instructional Delivery Formats

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The desired experiences and choices of character a person acts to create and to keep, such as their human rights. Learn more in: Learning Problem-Solving Strategies in Virtual Worlds That Encourage People to Respect Human Rights

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A set of abstract and general principles that guide behavior. Individual values are, in effect, judgments about what is right or wrong and good or bad. Learn more in: The Future of Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) in Shaping Intercultural Communication Competency

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Collective conceptions of what is considered good, bad, or improper in a culture. Learn more in: Framework for Social Change

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One of the first things a child learns from its parents. At that time, we were taught, among others things, about what is: good versus evil, clean versus dirty, beautiful versus ugly, natural versus unnatural, normal versus abnormal, logical versus illogical, rational versus irrational, and fair versus unfair. These values are broad tendencies to prefer some conditions to others. Learn more in: Diversity Orientation and Cultural Differences in the Implementation of Information Technology

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Abstract concepts varying in importance that serve as guiding principles in an individual’s life. Learn more in: The Impact of Consumer Values and Perceived Corporate Social Responsibility on the Attitude towards Genetically Modified Food: Implications for Private Branding Strategies

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A double concept, including Personal values as beliefs that guide individual behaviors, and Organizational values as norms transmitted to employees who guide decisions and behavior in the workplace. Its alignment plays a major role on organizational commitment . So, espoused (sanctioned by senior managers and located at the level of top management), attributed (those that members attribute to the organization and located at the collective level), shared (reflections of members’ personal values located at the level of individual members) and aspirational (members’ ideas of what ought to be the values and located at the level of individuals and groups) values should overlap . Values’ mismatch can be a good opportunity to promote participative transformational changes, through a values-based approach: identifying and solving existing gaps; promoting values’ congruence and assimilation ; thus (re)addressing the basis of culture. Learn more in: The Human Side of Information Systems: Capitalizing on People as a Basis for OD and Holistic Change

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Relatively enduring indicators used by people which signal that a specific mode of conduct is preferable to another. Learn more in: Consumers Attitudes towards Debt: Empirical Evidence from Morocco

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The extent to which one’s central guides influence his/her perceptions of appropriate identity, preferences, beliefs and behaviors in a diverse workplace. Learn more in: Leveraging Workforce Diversity using a Multidimensional Approach

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What is seen as important or relevant in life based on fundamental truths or principles, informed by culture, personality, and other sources (and understood as relevant at individual to mass-scale levels or micro/meso/macro-scale). Learn more in: Understanding Learners' Self-Expressed and Self-Professed Core Personal Values for Effective Teaching and Learning

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A set of beliefs that a person or group of people hold based on perceptions and experiences. Learn more in: Leveraging Intergenerational Diversity to Meet Business Goals

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The set of believes and attitudes that each individual has. Learn more in: Legal and Ethical Aspects of CSR: Potential in New Business Models Development

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The ideals that guide or qualify your personal conduct and interaction with others. Learn more in: Teaching and Technology: Issues, Caution and Concerns

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Things which are highly regarded or prized. Learn more in: Navigating Through Moral Dilemmas and Roadblocks to Decision Making