There have always been more important issues than others for human beings. Therefore, we value people, ideas, activities or objects, according to the meaning they have for our life.
However, the criterion with which we give value to these elements varies over time, throughout history, and depends on what each person assumes as their values.
In organizations, values allow their members to interact harmoniously. They influence their formation and development as people, and facilitate achieving goals that would not be possible individually.
For the welfare of a community it is necessary that there are shared norms that guide the behavior of its members. Otherwise, the community fails to function satisfactorily for the majority.
When we feel that in the family, school, work, and in society in general, there are malfunctions, often due to the lack of shared values, which is reflected in a lack of coherence between what is said and what is said. what is done.
For example, it is difficult to know how to teach children the value "tolerance", if our leaders and rulers permanently insult all those with whom they have differences of opinion.
It is also uphill to promote the value "respect" if there are teachers, teachers, leaders or parents who, in the face of complex situations, defend their decisions arguing: "Here is what I say" or "Things are like that because they are."
In practical terms it is unlikely that a community works well (and I do not say "perfect") if the people who make it up are not based on certain principles that permanently guide their way of relating, in good times and bad.
With the word "community" I mean the couple, the family, the work, the classroom, the condominium, the neighbors, the city, the country and any other instance of relationship with other people. If we do not share their values we will not feel good, nor will we function properly in that community. Nor will it make us happy to be part of it.
For the organizational culture of a company, values are the basis of the attitudes, motivations and expectations of its workers. Values are the backbone of their behaviors.
If the values do not have common meanings for all employees, daily work becomes more difficult and burdensome. The work environment becomes tense, people work with the feeling that not all row in the same direction and customers pay the consequences.
As pillars of a company, values do not just need to be defined. The company must maintain, promote and disseminate them constantly. Only in this way will their workers have a better opportunity to understand their meanings and put them into practice in their daily tasks.