MSCI211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Individualism, Geert Hofstede, Femininity

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Management Sciences
• Course: MSCI211
• Professor: Muhammad Umair Shah

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Chapter 3: values, attitudes, and their effects in the workplace. Values: represent basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s ideas as to what is right, good or desirable: content attribute: a mode of conduct or end-state of existence is important. Intensity attribute: how important it is: we e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)e t(cid:449)o f(cid:396)a(cid:373)e(cid:449)o(cid:396)ks fo(cid:396) u(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:448)alues: milto(cid:374) rokea(cid:272)h"s te(cid:396)(cid:373)i(cid:374)al a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)st(cid:396)u(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal (cid:448)alues, a(cid:374)d ke(cid:374)t hodgso(cid:374)"s ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al (cid:373)o(cid:396)al p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple. Instrumental values refer to preferable ways of behaving or means for achieving the terminal values: ambitious, broad minded, capable (standing up for your beliefs, honest, example: executives terminal: self-respect, family security, freedom; instrumental: honest, responsible, capable. People in the same occupations or categories (corporate managers, parents, students) tend to hold similar values.