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Workplace Values Exercise

This is a 3 step exercise aimed at helping you to identify your workplace values. Be sure to be
honest with yourself as no one is judging, nor scoring, your results.
Step1
Rate the degree of importance that you place on each of the following workplace values using
this scale:
1= Very important to me
2=Reasonably important to me
3=Somewhat important to me
4=Not important to me at all
I am interested in jobs and careers that include:
Values Rating
Creating/building things 1 ○
Mental challenge/mentally demanding/problem-solving 2
Physical challenge/physically demanding 3
Opportunity for balance between work life and family life 3
Flexibility in work structure 2
Intellectual status, an acknowledged “expert” in a given field 1 ○
Order and structure 3
High degree of competition 3
Integrity and truth 1 ○
Rewarding loyalty and dependability 1
Having self-respect and pride in work 1 ○
Stability and security 1
Strong financial compensation and financial rewards 2
Being recognized for quality of work in a visible/public way 2 ○
Having a positive impact on others and society 2
Using creativity, imagination; being innovative 1 ○
Variety and a changing work pace 3
Professional development and on-going learning and growth 1 ○
Friendships and warm working relationships 1 ○
 Teamwork and work groups 2
Glamour, prestige, respect, a level of social status 2
Predictable work projects 3
Deadlines and time demand/pressure challenges 2
Clear advancement tracks/opportunities for advancement 2
Tranquility, comfort, and avoidance of pressure 2
Dealing with the public/day-to-day contact with public 4
Using cutting edge or pioneering technologies or techniques 3
Opportunities for leadership, power, influence 2
Making decisions, having power to decide courses of action 2
Respect, recognition, being valued 2
Autonomy, independence, freedom 1 ○
Precision work with little tolerance for error 4
Adventure and excitement 1 ○
Other: little overtime 3
Other: have welfare 1

Step2
Try to identify the 10 most important values to you from the list above and circle them,

・Creating/building things
・Having self-respect and pride in work
・Intellectual status, an acknowledged “expert” in a given field
・Professional development and on-going learning and growth
・Friendships and warm working relationships

Step3
Narrow down your list of 10 to the 5 core values you hold most sacred – that you cannot live
without in your job/workplace – and place them below:
1, Creating/building things
2, Having self-respect and pride in work
3, Intellectual status, an acknowledged “expert” in a given field
4, Professional development and on-going learning and growth
5, Friendships and warm working relationships
Your core group of workplace values can help determine your level of satisfaction with your
job and your career path – and can be used to judge the level of “fit” with any future job,
company or career change.
https://www.mcgill.ca/caps/files/caps/handbook_jobsearchhandbook.pdf