GRADE

12 CAREER GUIDANCE

MODULE 6
Keep Me Balanced!
Objectives:

- Identify their values that leads to the attainment of their career goals.
- Evaluate their values that influenced their career and life decisions.
- Plan ways on how to resolve conflict in their values to successfully achieve
their career and life goals.

Main Activity
Side A, Side B
Directions: Answer the following in your answer sheets.

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 Lecturette

Values are acquired as a result of value-laden information from the

environment interacting with the inherited characteristics of the individual. Since
cultural background, gender, and socio-economic level influence social interactions
and opportunities, priorities placed on values by people from various multicultural
grouping will vary and influence the choice of careers and other life roles.

Values that are influenced by other people’s value systems may not truly
represent the individual’s true values.

We have different kinds of values. These are:

 personal values like self-respect, self-fulfillment, health, privacy, peace of

mind, financial stability, independence

 family values like love, close family ties, family happiness

 spiritual values like establishing a close personal relationship with God,

seeking His will in our life, following His commandments, working for the
good and well-being of the less fortunate

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  work values like precision work, power, exercising competence, public
contact, fast pace, change and variety

 career values like personal growth, advancement, prestige and status,

recognition

 social and humanitarian values like service to others, helping people in

need, love of country, moral fulfilment, etc.

 cultural values like debt of gratitude or utang na loob, getting along with
others or pakikisama, authority

Conflicts in values may be intrapersonal, interpersonal, or organizational. An

intrapersonal conflict is a situation wherein one experiences conflict of values and
needs within oneself. (Example: Achievement conflicts with health; independence
conflicts with security.)

People with divergent values but who must live or work together experience
interpersonal conflicts. (Example: Your teacher values authoritarianism but you
value independence.)

Organizational conflict is experienced by a person whose personal value

system clashes with corporate values. (Example: Your class values teamwork but
you value independence, time freedom, or working alone.)

Value conflicts create tension and anxiety which can lead to stress. They can
make people indecisive, a situation that can confuse the ones they live or work
with. If these behaviors become inconsistent, this can result in interpersonal
problems. So, how do people resolve conflicts in values?

To resolve an intrapersonal conflict, one has to be clear about his or her

priorities. Priorities depend on one’s roles, goals, and personal mission.
Interpersonal conflicts can be resolved through communication in which both
parties try to see and understand the situation of the other. If organizational values
conflict with one’s personal values, a choice of either setting aside the latter or
embracing the values of the organization, or leaving the organization and working
for one whose values are compatible with his or hers. (Santamaria 2009)

Duane Brown’s Values-based Holistic Approach to Career Development

Values have cognitive, affective, and behavioral components which facilitate

prioritization of values for decision-making. Each person develops a relatively small
number of values that are prioritized in a value system. Values are prioritized when
a person can rank the order of importance assumed by his or her values in guiding
his or her behavior and when he or she can act according to that priority.

Authentic values are brought out through an insightful dialogue involving

self- reflection. True values, when fully expressed, are capable of leading a person
toward focus, purpose, satisfaction, and happiness. Furthermore, a value is
crystallized once it has a label that is meaningful to the individual. Once values are
crystallized and prioritized, the individual can go on directly to career choice
making (Villar, 2009).

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 Application

Rerouting Values

Directions: Go over the values listed in “Side A, Side B.” and identify the values
listed in Side A that are not listed in Side B and write those values under the
column entitled “Values least valued.” Lastly, make a plan on how you will resolve
the conflict in values that may lead to the attainment of your career goals.

Reflection

Directions: In your journal notebook or on a piece of paper, write your insights

and realizations on the Side A, Side B activity using the following format:

I learned that .............

I realized that .............
In order to achieve my career goal, I will.........