Alignment between employee and organizational values connects an individual’s beliefs and goals with the purpose of their work. A value mismatch creates conflict, disengagement, and burnout. Staff are more likely to experience career satisfaction when their own values align with those the organization holds. There are several pathways organizations can follow to enhance value alignment between the agency and staff. Those pathways include the development of an ethical work environment, creating shared values that employees engage in defining, including value-based questions within recruitment interviews, and holding your organization and staff accountable to the values that are set. Use the resources in this section of the Hub to identify actionable steps your organization can take to establish and/or enhance value alignment.

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Understand the Importance of Organizational Values

Adopt Processes to Support Employee/Organizational Value Alignment

  • The Value Alignment Best Practice Brief produced by the Retain BH Providers Action Team highlights national and local best practices for strengthening the alignment between organizational and employee values.

Conduct Value-Based Interviews with Prospective Employees

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Embed Values Across Your Organization

  • Watch this brief animated video – The Importance of Core Values – to learn how successful corporations embed their core values across their organization

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Incorporate Shared Values into Daily Practices

  • Adapt Brene Brown’s Living Into Our Values and  engage employees in identifying ways to more fully incorporate organizational values into their daily work practices.

Question of the Day

What are your organization’s core values? How and where do they show up in daily work practices?

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