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Values Indicator |
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The
Values Indicator offers a comprehensive and well
proven survey system to gather employee values and those that
they assign to their wider organization choosing from fifty
adjectives under five key clusters.
This
values indicator profile is broadly based upon the research
work (mainly conducted in the 1950's and 1960's) of the
American psychologist, Dr Clare Graves and the British human
biologist Richard Dawkins. This
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on human genetic make-up and what ultimately became know as
human MEMES looked at people's pycho-social and organizational
behavioral DNA. In other words, it was concerned with the
way that individuals make judgments about the world around
them and use their value systems by themselves and when part
of a larger group.
Although
this research work ultimately identified eight separate MEMES,
five of these covered over 90% of the population and therefore
these five serve as the base value clusters used in this profile.
As each MEME was given its own representative color, we have
utilised the equivalent color system for each values cluster:
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Representative
MEME color
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Underlying
Driver
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Brief
characteristics
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The
Harmony Value cluster
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GREEN |
Relationships |
Benevolent,
co-operative, open, idealistic, and warm
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The
Independence Value cluster
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YELLOW |
Freedom |
Conceptual,
flexible, logical, adventurous and creative |
The
Tradition Value cluster
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PURPLE |
Stability |
Consistent,
affiliative, protective, careful and responsible |
The
Achievement Value cluster
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BLUE |
Endeavor |
Organised,
dependable, determined, efficient and committed |
The
Power Value cluster
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RED |
Control |
Persistent,
competitive, decisive, restless and driven |
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This
profile is designed to be used in two ways:
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As
a way of identifying which value clusters are likely to
be most dominant when individuals make judgments or decisions.
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As a way of identifying particular individual values (and
their relative importance to a person's thinking) regardless
of the cluster to which they most typically may belong.
Whichever
way this profile is used, this is designed to act as a journey
of self discovery and exploration, with the process (of
reviewing all the different values, selecting the ones that
most apply and then ranking them in priority order) aiming
to guide individuals to a greater level of awareness. Hence,
the goal is to avoid prescribing particular outcomes or
the worth of any one value cluster over another (leaving
individuals to form their own views after reflection).
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Click
here to view a sample values indicator report.pdf
(Requires
Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Visit
the values indicator web site
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2004
Worldwide Center for Organizational Development, Site developed
by PHMultimedia.com |
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