Have you ever worked with corporate values? How did you go about it?

Question

Companies around the world have in later years adopted formal statements of corporate values, and senior executives now routinely identify ethical behavior, honesty, integrity, and social concerns as top issues on their companies’ agendas.

What are your experiences with working with corporate values? How did you identify your company's core values? How did you communicate them? How did you implement them?

I am very sorry that honey007 has had some bad experiences with corporate values. It sounds like you need to change your job and find some happiness somewhere else.

However, I am heading the corporate values work in the company I work for, and I asked my question on a positive note. I want to engage the employees in this proces and have them take responsability and ownership on the work.

I know that whatever I do some people may feel left out or disagree with the proces, but I am looking for advice as to how NOT to offend people or leave them behind in the proces.

Answer 1

Yes, I did work

The values that companies project are not for their employees, but for the customers of their products or services, and for them to maintain a respectable and trustworthy image.

Don't expect to be treated in the same way as promised to the customers or advertised...things work differently from within....

If one cannot adjust or compramise...one should find a different job and shift.....

There are ways to cope with it:

1. Become a hypocrite

2. Pretend you are too busy so you won't b overburdened....avoid this if you're taking your job seriously though...

3. Smile all the time and pretend to be thick skinned when you're insulted

4. Work longer hours than required or work on weekends - this makes sure that people notice that you're 'hard working'....I've known many people to get a promotion on this basis.....

5. Adjust to whatever terms and conditions they make u work under

6. Agree/disagree with something even if you don't want to - there's no harm in saying something - you don't have to change your own beliefs

7. Live each day at a time keeping into account the targets that you need to deliver - but don't expect any appreciation. - work with a hope of a raise or a promotion

8. Expect there to be politics everywhere.

9. Take everything with a pinch of salt - nothing is perfect - don't think of it just as a job - just as 1/2 a part of your life which actually lies outside your work place -your life can be treated as distinct from your job if you find it really hard to cope with it.

there is a saying " Do in Rome as Roman's do" - so If you cannot stick by their rules, regulations and set of values - it's better to find another job where you share similar values....and leave this one