A bit introduction to human values for Professional Students and Graduates

1. HUMAN VALUES
BY:-
Hitesh Sharma
B.Tech Mechanical Engineering,
SKIT, Jaipur

2. INTRODUCTION
 Human values are the virtues that
guide us to take into account human
element when one interacts with one
other human beings. They are our
feelings for the human essence of
others.
 It’s both what we expect others to do
to us and what we aim to give to other
human beings. These human values
give the effect of bonding, comforting
and reassuring.

3. INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN
VALUES
 Value guides the selection or evaluate
policies, people and events. That is,
values some as standard or criteria

4. SOME BASIC VALUES ARE
 Self direction
 Stimulation
 Hedonism
 Achievement
 Power
 Security
 Conformity
 Tradition
 Benevolence
 Universalism

5. TYPES OF VALUES
 Moral Value
 Ethical Value
 Professional Value
 Social Value
 Aesthetic Value
 Psychological Values

7. What is a Social Values
 The quality (positive or negative) that renders
something desirable or valuable
 Principles, standards or qualities considered
worthwhile or desirable by the person who holds
them.
 Those qualities of behavior, thought, and character
that society regards as being intrinsically good,
having desirable results, and worthy of emulation
by others.
 Values are our subjective reactions to the world
around us. They guide and mold our options and
behavior. Values have three important
characteristics.
◦ Developed early in life and are very resistant to
change.
◦ Define what is right and what is wrong.
◦ Cannot be proved correct or incorrect, valid or

8. Basics of Social Values
 Participation in decision-making
process
 Protection of privacy and freedom of
information
 Equality and integration
 Protection of the environment
 Protection of the unborn

10. ETHICS AND VALUES
 Ethics is the branch of philosophy that involves
systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of
right and wrong conduct.
 In ethics, value denotes something's degree of importance,
with the aim of determining what action of life is best to do or
live, or to describe the significance of different actions. It may
be described as treating actions themselves as abstract
objects, putting value to them.

11. SOME POINTS IN ETHICAL
VALUES
 Corporate Culture
 Conveying Company Values
 Creating an Ethical Workplace
 Fair Treatment
 Acting with Integrity
 Dealing with Unethical Business
Values

12. Corporate Culture
 Companies that define key elements of a corporate
culture communicate their core values, beliefs and
preferred approaches to handling common and
uncommon business situations.
 Employees with a firm grasp on a company’s
values will make the most appropriate choices
when facing a business dilemma.

13. Conveying Company Values
 Managers define ethical business behavior
in their workplaces by explaining to
employees how behavior and action affects
the business’ overall mission.
 This approach helps employees understand
the link between ethical business behavior
and corporate success.

14. Creating an Ethical
Workplace
 While there are many shades of gray in
business dealings, companies can define
ethical business values by outlining clear
examples of right and wrong behavior as it
applies to them.
 This can be achieved by role-playing
scenarios such as customer interactions,
employee disputes or negotiations with
vendors and contractors.

15. Fair Treatment
 A business can define ethical behavior by outlining
what it considers fair and just treatment of
employees and customers.
 This includes goodwill among coworkers and
toward customers, a willingness to give back to the
community and the self-control to avoid situations
where unethical behavior could occur.
 When employees understand how a company
defines business ethical values, they become more
likely to comply with corporate policies and
management decisions.

16. Acting with Integrity
 A company that defines business ethical
values as a core element of a corporate
culture encourages employees to perform
their job responsibilities accordingly.
 This often involves doing what’s right for the
business, without regard to personal
outcomes or ulterior motives

17. Dealing with Unethical Business
Values
 Many poor personal and professional
decisions are based on a rationalization of
the ethics involved.
 Truly defining business ethical values in a
workplace environment involves following
examples of ethical behavior and fair
treatment, starting from management and
trickling down.

19. PROFESSIONALISM
The concept of professionalism often relates to your
conformity to workplace norms concerning your
treatment of others and the workplace.
This includes showing up on time, dressing well,
keeping your working area clean, sending email
messages without typos and without exposing the
addresses of others.

20. PROFESSIONAL VALUES
 Accountability and Responsibility
 Loyalty
 Integrity
 Gossip

21. ACCOUNTABILITY AND
RESPONSIBILITY
The obligation of an individual or organization
to account for its activities, accept
responsibility for them, and to disclose the
results in a transparent manner. It also
includes the responsibility for money or other
entrusted property.

22. LOYALTY
 Loyalty is faithfulness or a devotion to a
person, country, group, or cause.
Philosophers disagree on what can be an
object of loyalty as some argue that loyalty
is strictly interpersonal and only other
human beings can be the object of loyalty.

23. INTEGRITY
 Integrity is the quality of being honest and
having strong moral principles; moral
uprightness. It is generally a personal
choice to uphold oneself to consistently
moral and ethical standards.

24. GOSSIP
 Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially
about the personal or private affair of
others, act of gossiping is also known
as dishing or tattling.

26. Value Crisis In Contemporary
Society
• Individual Level
• Societal Level
• Intellectual Level
• Cultural Level

27.  ​Personal Success & Selfish Individualism
 ​Following “Higher the quantity of consumption, better the
quality of life.”
 ​Overlaying of importance of material values of life
 Downplaying of other life values like moral values etc.
 ​Rise in rights consciousness but decline in duties
 ​Adoption of Double Standards ​
At Individual Level

28. At Societal Level
 ​Group oriented society but limited to caste, clan & village
community
 ​Communitarian feeling declined but social consciousness
reminds that individual attainments are related to society
 No attention on social problems like poverty, injustice, caste
and gender inequalities ​

29. At Intellectual Level
 Value Climate is linked with society's intellectual temper and it's tone is
set by writers, academicians, other intellectuals
 ​Generate ​New ideas & solutions to human problems but contemporary
intellectual temper is critical, imitative & reactive
 ​Academic compartments produce only narrowly focused specialists
 ​We want stamp of degree from prestigious inst., awards, recognition, but
not the virtues of character displayed ​

30. At Cultural Level
 ​Due to socio economy cond. & copying western modes, affect food habits,
dress, forms of greetings, modes of entertainment
 ​Ambivalent and confusing attitude of educated Indians towards culture.
 ​Peculiar characteristic of our culture is tolerance of New ideas with old
ideas which create two opinions
◦ ​'Unity in diversity '
◦ contradictory ideas

31. At Cultural Level
 ​one pole has pride in Indian culture while other pole take it as a burden,
source of conflicts & roadblocks to progress ​ acc. to English educated
society 'Dharma - Religion' but it is partly true
 ​Dharma is concerned with all aspects ,individual, social, family, political,
administration
 ​It promotes welfare of all beings not only of humans
 Poojas, fasts, rituals, going to temples for selfish end and keep away evil
forces
 ​Multi-cultural is way out and will provide meaning to " Vasudhaiv
Kutumbakam"​