BUS 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Workaholics, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction
3 Feb 2013
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Values: a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others. Values are motivational since they signal the attractive aspects of our environment that we seek and the unattractive aspects we try to avoid or change. We learn values through the re-enforcement process. Many contemporary organizations are attempting to understand the implications of having distinctive generations in the workplace at once. These different generations grew up under different socialization experiences. Generation y: confident, social, demanding of feedback and unfocused. Organizations have to tailor job designs, leadership styles and benefits to the generational mix of their workforce. Questioned over 116000 imb employees located in 40 countries about their work-related values. Discovered 5 basic dimensions along which work-relate values differed across cultures: power distance uncertainty avoidance, masculine/femininity, and individualism/collectivism: power distance: the extent to which an unequal distribution of power is accepted by society members.
