BUSI 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Masculinity, Attitude Change, Femininity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Business
• Course: BUSI 2121
• Professor: Professor Vilma

Document Summary

Session 2: values, attitudes and diversity in the workplace. To know how values affect the work environment. To understand the importance of diversity in the workplace. Values. (cid:862)values a(cid:396)e (cid:271)asi(cid:272) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, that (cid:373)ake people (cid:271)eha(cid:448)e i(cid:374) a (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:455), guide how we make decisions, according to their personal and social point of view. System of values: this is the hierarchy of individual and group values, based according to their intensity, within a person, an organization or a society. Terminal values: these are the goals that individuals would like to achieve during their lifetime, desirable end states of existence. Instrumental values: these are preferable ways of behaving. (these are the means for achieving the terminal values. ) Ethical values: these are moral values or principles that guide our behaviour and inform us whether actions are right or wrong. Figure 1: this shows the differences between terminal and instrumental values. The structure of an organization is like an iceberg.