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Management , Seventh Edition
Ricky W. Griffin - Texas A&M University
Self-Assessments

Beliefs and Values Questionnaire


Skill Self-Assessment:

Introduction: Ethics are critically important in business, and beliefs and values are important in shaping an individual's ethics. The following assessment surveys your beliefs and values about life and people.



Instructions: You will agree with some of the statements and disagree with others. In some cases, you may find making a decision difficult, but you should force a choice. Record your answers next to each statement according to the following scale:



5 = Strongly Agree
4 = Somewhat Agree
2 = Somewhat Disagree
1 = Strongly Disagree

1. People should be concerned with God and life after death.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
2. Great acomplishments make life worth living.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
3. The best way to live is to keep emotions and behaviors under control. People should follow the adage, "Less is more."
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
4. Because people have differnet needs, values, and personalities, we should follow the sayings, "Live and let live" and "Different strokes for different folks."
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
5. Understanding why people do what they do is more science than art.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
6. Despite what we read and see in the news, life is getting better for people. Conditions are btter in modern times than they were in Ancient times.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
7. There is a divine purpose in everything that happens, even if it is hard to understand at the time.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
8. Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
9. It is good to keep ideas and feelings to yourself; you should follow the principle, "Trust not, suffer not."
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
10. People should remember that truth is relative and what is right for one person may be wrong for another.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
11. If you could completely control a person's environment you could completely control the person's behavior.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
12. People shoud accentuat the positive in life; they should look for a silver lining in every cloud and good in every person.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
13. God is an idea created by human beings.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
14. You pass this way only once, so live life to its fullest.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
15. People should have the attitude, "Nothing ventured nothing gained."
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
16. What the world needs is more people with principles and the strength to stand up for them.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
17. You can never fully control people because each person has free will.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
18. The way the world is going, civilization will probably be destroyed by disease or some other calamity.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
19. Belief in God is based on superstition and is not supported by fact.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
20. Good advice is, "If it feels good, do it."
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
21. People should learn from the turtle: it never makes progress until it sticks its neck out.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
22. Obedience and respect for authority are two important values that a society must develop in its people.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
23. A scientific understanding of human behavior is limited because each person is a unique individual with immeasurable and unpredictable qualities.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 
24. The world is full of poverty, sickness, prejudice, and cruelty, and there is little reason to believe things will change.
Strongly Agree  1  Strongly Disagree
 



Source: George Jana Foltz and Naomi Miller, Northern Kentucky University, 1979.   Reproduced form George Manning & Kent Curtis, Ethics at Work, 1988, with permission of South-Western Publishing Co. Copyright © 1988 by South-Western Publishing Co.  All Rights Reserved.


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