We explain what values are and why they are important to society. Also, what types of values exist and how they are manifested.
How important are values?
We call values to the ethical and moral principles by which we choose to guide our conduct in different areas of life: personal, professional, emotional, and so on. They are the fundamental notions that serve as a guideline for the formulation of our goals, objectives and purposes, and also for decision-making.
Values can be of different types: personal, collective, professional, organizational, ecological, and a long etcetera. Each one defines the perspective that is handled on vital, important, transcendental issues, in each of these fields of life.
Thus, the values of each person (a person or an organization) are reflected in the type of actions you carry out in life, and when they are shared by others, they create a feeling of affinity and belonging that can perfectly be translated into synergy and the sum of wills. The latter is something of great importance for companies and organizations.
In summary, values are important to society for the following:
- They allow to guide human behavior on transcendental issues, such as what is good, bad, fair and unfair.
- They promote a sense of community, to the extent that people with similar values tend to group together, share tasks and act together.
- At the same time, allow opposition: people with different values tend to confront each other and occupy opposite places.
- They give work a transcendent meaning, which links it to something beyond production itself and earning a salary.
- They foster empathy and the humanization of social relations, insofar as we can contemplate the values of others.
- They allow the mobilization of large sectors of society in critical situations, such as helping the underprivileged in catastrophes and natural disasters.
- They hold an organization in its tracks fair, preventing you from losing your original purpose in the face of profit or success.