BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Baby Boomers, Masculinity, Collectivism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Christopher Zatzick

Document Summary

Chp 3: values, attitudes, and diversity in the workplace. Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite of converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence. Goals that individuals would like to achieve during their lifetime. The study of moral values that guide our behaviour between right and wrong . Identified 7 general moral principles: : dignity of human life, autonomy, honesty, The extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally: high power distance = inequalities in wealth/power and is widely accepted. The degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups: masculinity vs. femininity. Masculinity is the extent to which the culture favours traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power, and control. High femininity sees little differentiation between male and female roles and treats women and men equal in all respects: uncertainty avoidance.