Personal Values
PERSONAL VALUES Personal Values Wendy Gardner University of Phoenix MGT 531 Samuel Cunningham Monday, January 12, 2009 Abstract This research paper will define my results from the Williams Institute Ethics Awareness Inventory self-assessment and my own personal values. In addition, this paper, will also discuss the values of Kudler Fine Foods and how these values identify with my own. Lastly, this paper will address how the alignment of the values between me, and Kudler’s would affect my performance if I were a manager there. Personal Values According to the Williams Institute Awareness Inventory self-assessment, my ethical perspective is that I believe that each individual should have a moral obligation or sense of duty to do what is right. The assessment states that when I am weighting someone’s ethical values that I tend to focus on what their intent was rather than what the actual outcome is. In addition, that my ethical perspective is that individuals must choose how they act and which and what rules they feel they should follow. The assessment also state that from my ethical perspective, “Human beings must never be treated simply as a “means” to the accomplishment of some defined “end” (University of Phoenix, 2007). The assessment defines my ethical style as that I believe that people have a right to be respected as individuals, and that I am not able to support the idea of a society as a whole. Also, that I believe that people should be allowed to make choices regarding their lives. This assessment also states that I am a believer of standard that have been established of what is right and wrong. In my opinion, I think that I do tend to focus on the intent of the individual instead of the outcome. However, I do believe that human beings have an individual right to be respected, but I am able to support that we have to function as a society as a whole. I am a moral and ethical believer that people should know right from wrong but that does not...
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