Work Values and Virtue in the Workplace

If most real-life knowledge is truly available on the internet, and HR Departments indeed evolve to stay updated, could this mean the end of demand in training for work values?

As long time advocates of the dual training system, Dualtech thinks the answer will remain “No,” but not out of self service. For example, there are continuous inquiries as to how Dualtech trainees succeed together with industry partners; of course, the starting point was and is still work values. This implies that there is still active interest in the most effective ways to disseminate work values.

As part of the 40th Founding Anniversary, the school organized “Recharge: Energizing Employee Performance through Work Values Development”, a 1-day special seminar workshop for industry partners of Dualtech. In the opening program, Linkages Manager Mr. Leonard Calma, explained that the seminar contains “5 modules for this batch which will reinforce the positive values to achieve work performance gains and improvements.”

In his own message during the program, Dualtech President Mr. Arnold Morfe gave a quick history of how the school’s work values workshops came to be: “When [our group] started in 1982, we started with work values programs because we know that’s the bedrock of all training and education. And so far the first 2 years, 1982-84 before we started having a training center in 1985, we went around in different companies and we had consultant like Dr. Zen Udani going all over. ”

The speaker for the workshop was Dr. Zenon Arthur Siloran Udani, an HRD and OD consultant and a member of the faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau. His areas of focus are leadership development, HRD, team building, corporate culture development, life coaching, and curriculum development, among others. He is also an alumnus of the University of Navarra (Spain) and the University of the Philippines.

The topics covered by the seminar included: Core Work Values of High Performing Individuals and Teams; Recharging Individual & Team Performance and Work Relationships; Work Values in Action through Personal Roadmap; Grateful Leadership and Values Development; and Training Development Plan: Growing Corporate KASH

Just several of the key highlights of the day were:

– identifying the teams’ practices and habits that contribute the most to the bottom line;

– examining the “Stop-Start-Continue” strategy on work practices as a source of more positive work values;

– fostering a culture of gratitude; and,

– planning a three-month team gratitude which will lead to a culture of gratitude and courtesy throughout the company.

The event was attended by various companies’ officers, managers and specialists coming from Center Industrial Supply Corporation, GTH Technology Corporation, Maxtronix, Inc., Asia Brewery Inc., Bonflex Packaging Corp., Kinergy Philippines, Inc., Triton Industrial Plastic Mfg. Corporation, Zamperla Asia Pacific, Team Pacific Corporation and Nikkoplas Inc.