Values in Professional Practice: Towards a Critical Reflective Methodology
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Sammendrag
A prevailing conceptualization of values in
organizations regards values as preferable modes of conduct
or end-states of existence. Accordingly, values are
pursued through prescriptions, actions of implementation
and evaluation, based on the presumption that values
inform actions. Thus, holding the ‘right’ values leads to
desired practice. However, this is a problematic stance,
suppressing the fact that correlation between value and
action is highly questioned. The article claims that proliferation
of values in organizations is more plausible and
influential turning the process around, utilizing the ideas
of sensemaking, tacit knowledge and virtue in a critical
reflection-upon-action model, engaging organizational
members as co-researchers of their own value constructions
in context.