Human Value System :From blood to corporate
Being an Indian, its always a matter of concern for everyone to know and understand the subtle nuances related to tradition, culture and value. They are so closely related that it becomes very difficult for anyone to understand them vividly. Me too, after years of questioning and intrigue satiations, could manage to share some of the important differences and entities related to tradition, culture and value.
Let me begin with an example, we used to have a fixed dinner time for our families (days when we had more joint families). That was a culture. A self-defined family regulation that turned out to be a culture. The bottom line for this was that the family needs to be interactive, while dining, everyone would be in a lighter or the other mood. Members would talk about their day and the day ahead. They can sort out issues related to anything. This is the utility of this culture. But the question is , what is the value involved?
The value is togetherness.
Shaking hands is a gesture, the way we shake hands is the glimpse of what we intend from that hand shake but the eye contact and smile are the values. Touching feet of the elders is a culture, bowing down is the value. Helping someone is a gesture, helping is an ethic. The selflessness in doing so is the value.
Seeing our kids behaving the way they have been taught to even when we are not there is the value of what we expected out of the training we gave them.
Treating an employee on the scales of performance is a practice, making the employee never feel like an employee and feel better every day is the value. Teaching students in the classroom, a particular subject is a process, students understanding the lessons is the outcome, students talking about the lesson at home is learning, the family knowing the teacher through the student, is the value.
Making a company policy is a necessity, implementing the policy is a process, abiding by the policy is a protocol, the improvement in the employee’s work- life algorithm is the value.
Speaking good and right things is a virtue, speaking at the right time and place is discretion, being courageous enough to keep it up is wisdom and still being able to smile and sleep sound is value.
Being rude someone, at times might be a necessity or a process (circumstantial), being harsh beyond the threshold of the survivor is ugly, being harsh with the conviction that the survivor agrees and appreciates is trust, the decision that the survivor takes is the value.
The National Education Policy has put a great emphasis on the value education throughout the education system of India. The was a subject called “Moral Science” a couple of decades ago, then the environment saga made EVS compulsory, then came the rashtrabhasha saga which made Hindi compulsory and again the entire system is retracing its path to the indigenous value system, especially the human value system.
It has begun.
It has to take birth at the staff rooms of an academia and human resource departments of business organizations, get groomed by teachers and senior leaderships and then manifested in the human. That’s how the value can be injected into this venomous and inhuman system.
Without human values, there can’t be any ethical professionalism. Corporates hiring trainers who break the podium by shouting wouldn’t work at all. It has to start from one’s home and travelling through offices and places.
