Values classification exercise (adapted from Brown and Brooks, 1991).
Version 1
Mark with “+” in the table below important values and with “-” the unimportant ones:
No. Values Personal evaluation
- Variety in life
- Routine activities
- Helping others
- Independence (autonomy at the workplace)
- Friendship
- Moral fulfilment
- Affiliation
- Security
- Power and authority
- Balanced roles
- Artistic creativity
- Stability
- Risk, excitement
- Material profit
- Pleasant environment, atmosphere
- Social status
- Intellectual status
- Competition
- Influence on other people
- Altruism
Of the values marked with „+”, choose five,
the most important:
Write five of the values marked with „-”.
Start with the least important:
Analysis exercise of the relation between values and professions
Indicate professions / occupations / activity sectors where the professional values in the
list below play an essential part:
leadership, aesthetics, material advantages, diversity, security, intellectual stimulation,
prestige, altruism, agreeable atmosphere, collaboration, independence, self-fulfilment.
Add competences, personal qualities and aptitudes needed in the professions you
mentioned. Bring arguments.