BUS 272 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Consensus Decision-Making, Cubic Metre, Job Satisfaction

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

Document Summary

3 values, attitudes, and diversity in the workplace. Values affect our behaviours & attitudes, can have big impact on how ppl w/ diff backgrounds get along in workplace. Values = basic convictions that specific mode of conduct/end-state of existence is personally/socially preferable to opposite/converse mode of conduct/end-state of existence . Content attribute = says mode of conduct/end-state of existence is important. Intensity attribute = how important it is. Value system = ranking of indiv"s values in terms of their intensity. Most values formed in early years w/ input from parents, teachers, friends, others. This absolute black/white characteristic of values ensures stability. Terminal values = desirable end-states of existence, goals indivs would like to achieve in lifetime. Instrumental values = preferred modes of behaviour, means for achieving terminal values. Power distance = degree to which ppl in country accept that power in institutions & orgs distributed unequally.