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Understanding Values: Definitions & Importance

Values refer to principles or standards that guide judgments about importance and worth. They can be specific or general, differ between cultures, and are stable and learned. Values are classified into personal, moral, social, cultural, political, economic, religious and spiritual categories. Values integrate human impulses, build societies, mold personality, and regulate behavior through creating norms. Developing values can occur through celebrating national festivals, social service, community prayer, cultural programs, and health initiatives like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

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Understanding Values: Definitions & Importance

Values refer to principles or standards that guide judgments about importance and worth. They can be specific or general, differ between cultures, and are stable and learned. Values are classified into personal, moral, social, cultural, political, economic, religious and spiritual categories. Values integrate human impulses, build societies, mold personality, and regulate behavior through creating norms. Developing values can occur through celebrating national festivals, social service, community prayer, cultural programs, and health initiatives like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

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Presented by:

Aman Bhatia
CUHP18MBA13
MBA 1st Semester
MEANING OF VALUES
 Principles or standards of behaviour; one's judgement of
what is important in life.
 ETYMOLOGICAL MEANING: The word value is driven from
Latin word ‘valere’ that mean ‘to be strong’ or ‘to be
worth’.
 PHILOSOPHICAL MEANING: A value is directly related to a
view point or thought.
DEFINITION OF VALUES
 According to JOHN DEWEY , the value means primarily to
prize, to esteem, to appraise, to estimate.

 According to INTERNATION ENCYCLOPEIA OF ETHICS,


value is the ‘relative level of worth goodness, significance,
or utility possessed by an entity, attribute or event or an
intangible quality or attribute that has intrinsic worth in
itself.
CHARACTERITICS OF VALUES
 Values may be specific and may be more general.
 Values are different from culture to culture.
 Values are stable.
 Values are learnt.
 Values are part of our personalities.
CLASSIFICATION OF VALUES
Values can be classified into:
 Personal values
 ​Moral values
 Social values
 Cultural values
 Political values
 Economic values
 Religious values
 Spiritual values​
FUNCTION OF VALUES
 The main function of values are:
1) Integration and fulfillment of man’s basic impulses and
desires in a stable and consistent manner appropriate for his
living.
2) Generic experiences in social action made up of both
individual and social responses and attitudes.
3) They build up societies, integrate social relations.
4) They mould the ideal dimensions of personality and range
and depth of culture.
5) They have a great role to play in the conduct of social life.
6) They help in creating norms in guide day-to-day behaviour.
IMPORTANCE OF VALUES
 Regulate our day-to-day behaviour.
 Give ideals and Objectives.
 They express moral imperatives.
 It ends to which we act.
 They are the basic of our judgments.
DEVELOPING VALUES THROUGH
PROGRAMS
 Celebration of national festivals.
 Social service programmes.
 Community prayer in the school.
 Cultural and recreational programmes.
 Health and cleanliness programmes.
(Ex:- Swachh Bharat Abhiyan).
CONCLUSION
 Value are collective conceptions of what is considered
what is good, desirable, and proper or bad, undesirable,
and improper in a culture.
 Values are specific, different, stable, which are learnt &
who affect personality.
 Value build up societies, individual behaviour and
personality to be called as ‘GOOD’.
 It gives ideals, objectives to regulate our day-to-day
behaviour as well as base for our judgment.

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