Summary of chapter 3-5 and Keeping your colleagues honest

This article provides a summary to Gentile, M. (2010) Giving Voice to Values and Keeping
your colleagues honest
GVV is a phenomenon that people experience in private and professional life. Sometimes
people are reluctant to stand for their opinions. However, it is important to consider the
consequences coming after telling stories or not telling stories. A tale of the two stories is a
self-reflection exercise that helps to face the situation by giving a voice or being neutral. It
helps the individuals to get the required competencies to deal with value conflicts situations.
People like collaborative voices more than the individual voice and create allies. Individuals
can create allies, join allies, and network with allies. Here are some important facts that must
be considered in GVV. Selection of the audience, right communication skills, critical
organization and analysis of information, and effective conversations are such factors.   
By expecting the value conflict in advance, organizations/people feel quite easier to avoid the
common unexpected conflicts. With that frame, it is easier to cope with the situation less
emotionally and more factually. Further, it generalizes the stories, ideas, and problems for
both parties. With this approach, people can generalize the situations and be more open to the
situation freely.
Individuals deal with the organization/careers in different ways, based on social,
personal/professional facts. However, the business has a broader role in society as well as
financial means. When it comes to the individual in the firm it is no need to be perfect, but it
is needed to have adequate conditions that can motivate others to positive motives. With
fairness to the others, the companies can win more organizational values. Unethical
behaviours create value conflicts. Value conflicts force individuals to either give voice to
values or be neutral.
There are several reasons for individuals to be passive, such as taking incidents as common
things, taking as a simple, considering out of own responsibility, and considering being loyal
to co-workers. However, they can overcome the situations by treating the situation from a
business perspective, considering it as a part of the job, being yourself (avoid pretending),
challenging with the rationalization (counterargument), using the personal situation as an
advantage (too young, junior), express or concerns the faults, emphasizing long-term risks
more effectively and presenting an alternative to treat the situation. It helps to keep the
colleagues’ honesty at the firm.

In the article GVV refers to Giving Voice to Values