Following the great success of last year’s Stories on Values competition, which showcased wonderfully imaginative stories from children around the world, the Human Values Foundation is holding the competition again to mark this year’s World Values Day (19 October). Just like last year, schools and other organisations involved with children aged from 7 to 11 […]

Culture, and the values that shape people’s behaviour over time, is an asset, or a liability, that has a lasting influence on the performance of a company. So, who leads on values? Ed Mayo shares the idea of the emergence of a Chief Values Officer role, and a template job description that resulted from a […]

‘Closing the Values Gap’ was a provocative lunchtime panel discussion held at the RSA on Monday the 12th of June. The aim of the event was to draw attention to the Values Challenge, an initiative of the RSA, the Forward Institute and the UK Values Alliance. On or before World Values Day on 19th October […]

Tom Crompton of The Common Cause Foundation writes about research that reveals people across Greater Manchester attach particular importance to ‘compassionate’ values in this article on the Manchester Policy Blog: Greater Mancunians are more likely to think it is important to be honest, kind and care about social issues than the average UK citizen, yet […]

Maggie Strudwick gives a summary of our meeting on the 24 March, which came just 2 days after the London terrorist attack in the Westminster area. Five people died in the shocking incident, including the perpetrator, and 50 people were injured. We opened our meeting by stating a personal value of ours that had come […]

Paul Ingram is the Kravis Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School. His research over the past 10 years has focused on the importance of values in an organisations, and more granularly, the specific values that individuals hold. Here he discusses how we have ‘more in common than divide us’ – despite current moves […]