Personal values are developed at an early age. This paper will examine those personal values along with ethics and ground rules development. This paper will also define the sources that helped shaped those values and criteria along with the decision-making factors used to revise those values. Finally, this paper will be concluded by addressing the potential impact on the values and performance on the workplace.
Most important question will be what are personal values? The answer is that personal values are principles which define individuals. In principle, personal values include honesty, reliability, and trust. Personal values determine how an individual will react or handle different situations which may be presented or encountered throughout the journey of life. In addition, personal values will determine how an individual will relate to other individuals with different values and principles. Personal values and ethics will be carried by an individual in both personal and business world. If an individual carries personal values and ethics into the workplace, where the workplace does not maintain ethics as a priority then the individual would not succeed at this company. Personal values reflect the most basic characteristics of adaptation that guide individuals in deciding which situations should be entered and what should be done in those situations (Kahle, 1980).
For example, if salesperson of a pharmaceutical company visits doctor’s offices in order to educate the doctors about the new medication, the side effects, the advantages and disadvantages of the medication. The doctor will review the information to decide if that is the best medication or if a more economical medication can provide the same results. This would be an ethical way to make the presentati ...