Personal Value Creation &

Competency Building

Values

Levels of worth placed by an individual on various factors

Values

What is right or wrong on broad range of issues

Values

What is important to an individual

Values

Terminal

Goals individuals would like to

achieve during their life time

Instrumental

Preferable ways of behaving

Our Life

Ethics

Ethics

Ethos(Greek)

Ethics

Ethics

Code of moral principles and values that govern the behaviour of a person or group with respect to what is right or wrong.

කන්ඩායමක හ�ෝ එක් පුද්ගලහයකුහ� �ැසිරීම පාලනයකරන ස��රි වැරැද්ද පිළිබඳව සිතනආකාරය තීරණය වන

සදාචාරාත්මක සාධක.

Work Place Values & Ethics

• Dedication• Integrity• Accountability• Collaboration• Conduct

Dedication

• How hard an employee works • How much effort the employee put forward

Important for achieving results

Integrity

Displaying honest behaviour all the time

An employee who works as a cashier is expected to balance the drawer at the end of the every

working day.

Accountability

• Showing up when they are scheduled and on time.

• Not taking advantages of time allotted for breaks.

• Accepting the responsibility even when things go wrong

Collaboration

• When morale is high and everyone is working together, success will follow.

• Employees need to be team players.

Conduct

• Treating others with respect.• Wearing a proper attire• Using a suitable language.• Conducting themselves with professionalism.

Effects of a Lack of Ethics on Business Environment

• Legal Issues• Employee Performance• Employee Relations• Company Credibility

Legal Issues

Legal issues can rise up due to breaking laws at organization as a result of poor ethical practices.

Employee Performance

• Employees become money-minded.• Careless work leads to redoing of tasks.

Employee Relations

• Lack of ethical behaviour causes tension among people and it shakes employee relations.

Company Credibility

• If public gets to know that company doesn’t have good ethics, that business loses credibility.

• Money can not restore this damage.

How to Prevent Unethical Behaviour

• Set realistic goals for employees.(If they fail to meet unrealistic goals, they stick to unethical behaviour to achieve them)

• Monitor employees’ performance.(they play with tasks)

• Properly train employees (untrained employees make excuses for everything)

Make up a story

Dilemma…???• A situation in which a difficult choice has to be

made between two different things you could do.

උභත�ෝත�ෝටි�ය

Ethical Dilemma (Moral Dilemma)

• Situation in which there is a choice to be made between two options, neither of which resolves the situation in ethically acceptable manner.

Situations of Ethical Dilemma

Situation-01

As long as there is poverty in the world, I can never be rich…As long as diseases are

rampant( මැඩපැවැත්වීමට හනා�ැකි), I can never be healthy…I can never be what I ought to

be until you are what you ought to be.

Situations of Ethical Dilemma

Situation-02

Do you believe it is ethical for companies to capture personal information about their website visitors without their consent?

Situations of Ethical Dilemma

Situation-03

You tried your best and came out with a creative solution to control the turnover of your organization. you shared it with your friend at work. She makes use

of your idea and design another programme. It is appreciated by your manager more than your one.

How do you feel…???

Write a similar incident which you have heard or face

Do you know these terms?

• Talent • Interest • Skills • Personality

Talent

Comes from Latin word “Talenta”

marked innate ability

( �ඳුනාගත් ස�ජ �ැකියාවක්)

Talents

Music

Drawing

Singing

Writing

Interest

“I have an interest in sports”

“She is interested in reading novels”

“My friends have interest on gossips”

A state of curiosity/concern or attention to something

Skill

Ability comes from one’s knowledge, practice and attitudes.

Personality

• The set of characteristics that underline a relatively stable pattern of behaviour in response to ideas, objects, or people in the

Personality Types1. Extroversion – බාහිර පරිසරයට/ පුද්ගලයන්ට

විවෘතබව• The degree to which a person is sociable, talkative, assertive and comfortable with interpersonal relationships

2.Agreeableness – එකගතාවයට පැමිහණන බව

• The degree to which a person is able to get along with others by being good-natured, cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and trusting

3. Conscientiousness – �දවතින්මකටයුතු කරන බව• The degree to which a person is focused on few goals,

thus behaving in the ways that are responsible, dependable, persistent and achievement oriented.

Personality Types4. Emotional Stability – මානසික සමබරතාවය• The degree to which a person is calm, enthusiastic,

and secure rather than tense, nervous, depressed, moody and insecure.

5. Openness to experience – විවෘත බව• The degree to which a person has a broad range of

interest and is imaginative, creative, sensitive and willing to consider new ideas.

The Fifteen Factor Questionnaire Plus

The latest questionnaire built on 50 years of pioneering research by the psychologist

Ray Cattell.

The Fifteen Factor Questionnaire Plus

It can be mapped into five factor model

1. Pragmatism – openness2. Low self-control – high self control3. Extraversion – introversion 4. Independence – agreeableness5. Low anxiety – high anxiety

Attitude

An evaluation that predispose a person to act in a certain way.

යහමකු යම් හදයක් හකහරහි යම්ආකාරයට �ැසිරීමට ඔහුව හ�ෝ ඇයව හයාමු

කරවන්නා වූ හදයක්.

Components of Attitudes

• Cognitive components – (beliefs, opinions, information)

• Affective components – (Person’s emotions or feelings about the object of attitude such as enjoying or hating a job)

• Behavioural components– (Person’s intension to behave towards the object of the attitude in a certain way)

Formation of Attitudes

Set of values and beliefs form attitudes

How do you change attitudes…???

Changing Attitudes

Changing attitudes is largely determined by a person’s belief or the social norms that influence

a person’s intension

Changing Attitudes

Change the way you think

Changing Attitudes

Change the way you react

General Barriers to change Attitudes

Lack of skillsLack of positive attitudes

Fear of rule breaking

Personal factors

Some Ways to Develop Positive Attitudes

• Be confident• Be positive• Be punctual• Be patient • Believe in yourself • Set goals for yourself and then work hard to

achieve them.• Get fun out of life- don’t take life too seriously.

Questions to Check Positive Attitudes

• Are you willing to learn, no matter how difficult it is?• Do you do your best when studying, and try to

improve how you do your work?• Do you demonstrate enthusiasm in whatever you say

or do?• Do you welcome challenges, experiment and try new

ideas?• Do you have a sense of humor by not taking yourself

too seriously