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Companies don't have "values", they have internal PR. People, sentient, living breathing people have values. Companies are not that.
by 1_2__3 10y ago
Companies don't have "values", they have internal PR. People, sentient, living breathing people have values. Companies are not that.
- wott 10y ago> People, sentient, living breathing people have values. Does this include PR employees?
- 1_2__3 10y agoWhen acting on their own behalf? Of course. When advocating for a company? No, of course not.
- Analemma_ 10y ago"Corporations are people, my friend."
- gozur88 10y agoThat's a little too broad brush. Groups of people can share common values, and those groups can be quite large. In the millions. Companies can have values, but it's probably rare because what brings most people in a company together is a desire to pay the bills.
- 1_2__3 10y agoI wholly disagree. It can have a culture, that I will agree with. And that culture can be objectively better/worse when compared against a traditional moral system (and I'm only being so pedantic here with the "moral system" phrasing because culture that's good in one country/society may be considered toxic in another, so there's no objective measure of moral righteousness when examining a culture. Values, on the other hand, are almost purely fiction. They are what certain executives (the ones charged with coming up with and signing off on the values statements) want employees, customers and the public to believe is the culture the company has created (or is trying to create), but that's not the same thing as the culture itself or what a value actually is. Using the term "values" here just anthropomorphizes a non-sentient entity (a company) in an attempt to create an emotional response in people.