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Personal Values: Ethics Awareness Inventory Self-Assessment
Personal Values: Ethics Awareness Inventory Self-Assessment
In today’s highly competitive and globalized business world, effective leadership requires building interpersonal relationships that share personal values with employees. Personal values are the beliefs and principles that define the essence of a person and an organization. Values greatly influence how a person and an organization will make decisions.
Everyone has personal values, but sometimes these values are not identified nor acknowledged as important to business decision making. When people identify their values and allow these to focus and guide their behavior and the collective behavior of their organization and business, then these organizations are more consistent in principled behavior and in successfully achieving goals. Many business managers who emphasize values and ethical criteria for their decision making use the Williams Institute, Ethical Awareness Inventory (EAI). The EAI is a structured method that helps evaluate the ethical profile and style. When people evaluate values from their own perspective, they become more aware of what is right and wrong from their own ethical view. Ultimately, this awareness is greatly beneficial when making business decisions. EAI helps define personal ethical perspectives in terms of Character, Obligation, Results, and Equity (CORE). This paper identifies writer’s personal values based on a self-assessment using the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory. Furthermore, this paper explores how the writer’s values compare with those of the Kudler Fine Foods management and how her values would affect her performance as a manager at Kudler Fine Foods. According to the Williams Institute EAI, ethical decision making involves three components: awareness, articulation, and application.
Personal Values: Ethics Awareness Inventory Self-Assessment
Personal Values: Ethics Awareness Inventory Self-Assessment
In today’s highly competitive and globalized business world, effective leadership requires building interpersonal relationships that share personal values with employees. Personal values are the beliefs and principles that define the essence of a person and an organization. Values greatly influence how a person and an organization will make decisions.
Everyone has personal values, but sometimes these values are not identified nor acknowledged as important to business decision making. When people identify their values and allow these to focus and guide their behavior and the collective behavior of their organization and business, then these organizations are more consistent in principled behavior and in successfully achieving goals. Many business managers who emphasize values and ethical criteria for their decision making use the Williams Institute, Ethical Awareness Inventory (EAI). The EAI is a structured method that helps evaluate the ethical profile and style. When people evaluate values from their own perspective, they become more aware of what is right and wrong from their own ethical view. Ultimately, this awareness is greatly beneficial when making business decisions. EAI helps define personal ethical perspectives in terms of Character, Obligation, Results, and Equity (CORE). This paper identifies writer’s personal values based on a self-assessment using the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory. Furthermore, this paper explores how the writer’s values compare with those of the Kudler Fine Foods management and how her values would affect her performance as a manager at Kudler Fine Foods. According to the Williams Institute EAI, ethical decision making involves three components: awareness, articulation, and application.
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