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Value Incompatibility
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Differences in value systems have enormous power to provoke conflict. The word “value” comes from the French verb “valoir,” meaning “to be worth” and has associations with valour, importance and worth. Values constitute our deepest sense of what is, in our respective views, right, correct and how things should be. We tend to be very prescriptive about issues which are connected with our value system and we are likely to experience a challenge to our values as unacceptable or intolerable.
Examples of values would include:
- How do we want to behave with each other
- How we want to behave with customers
- How we believe children, spouses, partners, employers, employees, unions, management, students, lecturers, doctors, dentists, lawyers, sportspeople, pro-abortion, pro-choice, dry cleaners, cigarette smokers and any other category of persons should behave.
Our own values are the borders we have no intention of crossing and we expect others to feel the same way. When they do not, trouble is inevitable.
Who was significant in moulding some of your strongest values?
What are your responses or reactions when those values are transgressed?
Click here to view and download a handout that contains a personal value statements questionnaire.
Click here to view and download a handout that contains a personal value statements scoring sheet, that you need to store your personal values.