VALUE: For Where Your Values Are, There Will Your Effort Be

Value is the usually subjective worth of something for someone. It also is subject to changes in time.

Values define resources: if something has no value, it is not a resource. Our values define endpoints, and we exert effort to attain something of value.

Negotiation—communication to reach an agreement—involves understanding one another's values and trading those of lower subjective value for those of higher.

Understanding your coworkers' actual values is critical. People rarely put on their resumes that they value personal gain, no matter how small, more than anything else and that they think stealing from an employer (a capitalist pig) is expected.

They will not also mention that they value a place in some afterlife more than anything else and see any current employer as a short-term means to earn some money; however, soon, the employer will perish, and the whole world will belong to the adherents of Malamism, as had been prophesized ten thousand years ago.

People will never put it on their resumes, but these values will influence their work behavior. In the first case, the employer, being a small business, can run bankrupt due to employee theft, and in the second, the employee can sabotage work and abuse sensitive information.

{MOTIVATION THEORIES, LACK OF MOTIVATION, SUBJECTIVITY, REALITY, COMPARTMENTALIZATION, ENDPOINT TIERS, EXPECTANCY}