MWVM / THE ASSESSMENT COLLECTION
Work Values & Motives
Explore the priorities, rewards, and forms of contribution that give work personal meaning.
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A QUESTION WORTH EXPLORING
What you’ll explore
Support voluntary reflection on valued work experiences and the tradeoffs between them.
Adults choosing voluntary personal development or coaching
FROM RESPONSES TO REFLECTION
A profile with perspective
Your report brings together a response profile, an interpretation of each dimension, and questions that connect the findings with everyday situations.
Explore how a familiar approach may help, when context changes its usefulness, and which practices you would like to try next.
THE FRAMEWORK
Look at the
individual dimensions.
Each dimension offers a distinct question about your responses. Explore its meaning, possible expressions, and practical applications.
craft
Craft and mastery
The importance placed on developing skill and producing work that meets a personally meaningful standard.
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More endorsement: You may value opportunities to deepen expertise and improve quality.
Less endorsement: You may give other work priorities more weight than continual refinement.
Context and overuse: Refinement can consume resources after the task is already fit for purpose.
A practice to consider: Define where additional craft matters and where completion is sufficient.
contribution
Useful contribution
The importance placed on work having a clear beneficial effect for other people.
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More endorsement: You may seek a visible connection between effort and useful impact.
Less endorsement: You may find meaning through other features such as stability or technical challenge.
Context and overuse: A strong contribution priority can make it difficult to refuse unsustainable demands.
A practice to consider: Identify one beneficiary and one boundary that keeps contribution sustainable.
discretion
Practical discretion
The importance placed on having meaningful choice over methods and everyday work decisions.
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More endorsement: You may value room to choose an approach and explain your judgment.
Less endorsement: You may prefer clearer external structure or prioritize other work benefits.
Context and overuse: Discretion without coordination can create incompatible methods or unclear accountability.
A practice to consider: Separate decisions you want to own from decisions that need shared agreement.
continuity
Reliable continuity
The importance placed on predictable conditions, dependable agreements, and continuity of resources.
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More endorsement: You may value work arrangements that allow realistic planning.
Less endorsement: You may accept greater uncertainty in exchange for other opportunities.
Context and overuse: Protecting continuity can discourage a worthwhile experiment.
A practice to consider: Name the minimum stability you need and one uncertainty you can accept.
influence
Constructive influence
The importance placed on having a meaningful voice in decisions that shape shared work.
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More endorsement: You may value opportunities to contribute to consequential decisions.
Less endorsement: You may prefer contribution through execution, expertise, or quieter channels.
Context and overuse: Seeking influence everywhere can create unnecessary competition for decision space.
A practice to consider: Choose one decision where your input is useful and one where you can support another owner.
exploration
Exploration and variety
The importance placed on encountering new problems, methods, and perspectives at work.
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More endorsement: You may value variety and opportunities to discover unfamiliar approaches.
Less endorsement: You may prefer depth, continuity, or a more familiar problem space.
Context and overuse: Pursuing novelty can interrupt completion or neglect useful routines.
A practice to consider: Reserve a bounded experiment while protecting one important ongoing commitment.
TEN CHAPTERS OF RESEARCH
Follow the questions.
Connect values and motives with work environments, competing priorities, and the distinction between preference and performance. Each chapter links to its sources and examines the implications for measurement.
From human values research to work-priority reflection
Values research asks what people consider important; MWVM proposes a narrower map of desired work experiences.
Values, traits, motives, and opportunities are different questions
Wanting a work experience, typically behaving a certain way, and having access to that experience should not be conflated.
Six proposed work priorities and their practical boundaries
The MWVM domains describe desired experiences that may coexist, compete, or support one another.
Measuring importance without forcing an artificial hierarchy
Rating work priorities is accessible, but it creates response-style and comparison questions that require research.
Work values can show continuity while priorities still change
Stability across people and change within a person are different features of a values score.
Scoring priorities without a value-quality score
MWVM summarizes importance within each domain and does not rank the moral quality of a person’s values.
Values, culture, and the danger of treating similarity as suitability
A work-priority profile can support a conversation about conditions; it should not become a culture-fit exclusion rule.
Reading a values profile through concrete tradeoffs
A useful profile helps explain a choice without prescribing a single correct career or life direction.
When values answers reflect ideals, constraints, or the moment
A work-values response is a self-description whose meaning depends on the question and the context of answering.
Building evidence for an original work-values framework
MWVM requires research on its own definitions, response processes, structure, stability, and consequences.
A closer look.
How do I use this assessment?
Create a verified account, choose this framework, and create a free preview assessment. Share its private link with the participant. They give consent, complete 60 statements, and the report becomes available in your dashboard. Your account can create up to 50 free preview assessments across the collection.
What will the report help me explore?
The six-page report organizes your responses across 6 dimensions. It includes interpretations, contextual considerations, and development prompts. Use these to identify examples from your experience, consider other perspectives, and decide what to explore in practice.
Who can access the responses and report?
The account that creates the assessment can see the participant’s name, completion status, and report. The participant can download the report through the browser session used to take the assessment while that session and invitation remain active. The privacy and participation page explains consent, access, retention, and deletion.
What is the scope of this framework?
Six original work-priority domains. This is not the MVPI, a Schwartz questionnaire, a culture-fit filter, or a score-equivalent version of any established instrument.
Current edition: MWVM-dev-1.0. The methodology and evidence status describe the research-informed development stage and appropriate interpretation.
Outside the intended use: Hiring, promotion, dismissal, or automated eligibility decisions · Clinical diagnosis, forensic judgments, or assessment of individual dangerousness · Minors, compulsory screening, or claims about moral worth.
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