As I read “How to Link Personal Values with Team Values” by Jaffe and Scott, I found it very interesting to see how companies displayed their values and how they aligned and incorporated with their employees’ values. The paper begins by discussing Levi Strauss and the way it turned incorporating values into somewhat of a team activity. It allowed coworkers to see the many different things people valued, and then they all got to come to a consensus about what values the company should adopt. I thought this was a great way for a company to go about personal and team values, and something that other companies should possibly adopt.

It talks later about AT&T and how they did something similar in their southwest regions. They had managers and fellow employees share their personal values, and then as a group come together and decide on shared values as a team.

Throughout the article, companies giving employees and managers a platform to talk about their personal values and be able to share them is greatly emphasized. The importance of this and companies being able to adopt some of these values as a team is talked about as well. I think that this is very crucial for a company to do, because if employees feel as if the company is committed to the company’s values and their employees’ personal values, so much so that they are allowed them to share them and vote to have values as a team, employees will work better as a team and for the company.

Jaffe, D. T., & Scott, C. D. (1998). How to link personal values with team values. Training & Development, 52(3), 24–30