Description
How much satisfaction you experience in a job or career depends partly on the extent to which the job or career you choose has elements you “value”. Research studies indicate that people who express satisfaction with their jobs have primarily their needs met and are in tune with what they value. The needs and values may deal with psychological, social, material, etc. aspects. These work values can also be compared to ‘Career Anchors’ that represent a person’s self-image of what he or she excels in, wants, and values. Although a person can have only one career anchor, the categories can be arranged in a hierarchy according to what that person would be willing to give up if forced to choose between two anchors.
Values are fundamentals of life and they govern people & strategies to a major extent. Our behavior or engagement to different things is a result of the values we hold. We engage ourselves in those tasks & activities, which can provide us the outcome we value. Our behaviors are also as per what we value. As values influence our choices, they are capable of determining our effectiveness, as they can influence the outcome as well.
Work value is the worth or excellence ascribed to a particular aspect of work in a person’s interaction with that work. Several dimensions of work may be identified for understanding work values.
This is a 72 item questionnaire that assesses the relative intensity of nine work values and the relative importance of expected work outcomes for the individual.
The 9 work values are:
- Creativity & challenge
- Economic
- Independence
- Service
- Work conditions
- Status
- Co-workers
- Security
- Academic
