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The value model of Clare Graves
The value model of Clare Graves (Clare W. Graves) describes the development of people and organisations in several stages. It is a very simplified model. We can understand it as a kind of “value heuristic”. Heuristics deliberately omit information in order to arrive at good decisions. Exactly in this sense I use this model in organizational development.
Premises of the model
- The value model of Clare Graves describes how people, like systems, “think and act” at different stages of development, not what they are.
- There is no evaluation of the developmental levels. They are all good when they “resonate” with the environment. So they are suitable or unsuitable. Important: “above” is not better than “below”!
- Each level of development emerges from the previous levels. In this model further development is always a reaction to the environment.
- The development does not go continuously, but step by step. No level (level) can be skipped. All levels want to be passed through. There are no shortcuts in development!
- Each higher level contains all patterns of action and potentials of all lower levels.
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