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Personal values: A basis for work motivational set and work attitude

Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1978
Abstract This paper investigates the interrelationships among the employee's personal value system, job attitude, and organizational reward system. It was assumed that individual values are part of the set with which employees approach their work environment and evaluate the organizational reward system.
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Personality, Vocational Interests, and Work Values of Medical Students

Journal of Career Assessment, 2008
Interests, personality, and values figure prominently in work motivation, yet little research has examined the combined influence of these factors on vocational behavior. The present study therefore examined relationships among these variables in a sample of 282 medical students (169 women, 113 men) who responded to the Strong Interest Inventory, NEO ...
Ryan D. Duffy, Nicole J. Borges, Paul J. Hartung   +2 more
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The value of empirical work: A personal view

International Journal of Forecasting, 1993
Collopy, F. and J.S. Armstrong, 1992 “Rule-based forecasting: Development and validation of an expert systems approach to combining time series extrapolations”, Management Science, 3X, 1394-1414. Fildes. R., 19X5 “Quantitative forecasting-The state of the art: Econometric models”, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 36, 549-580. Geriner.
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Influence of Personal Values and Value Congruence on Unethical Practices and Work Behavior

Journal of Business Ethics, 2010
The study examines whether (a) personal and organizational values differ in private and public sectors, and (b) personal values and value congruence – the extent of matching between personal and organizational values – influence unethical practices and work behavior.
Damodar Suar, Rooplekha Khuntia
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Imagining Personhood Differently: Person Value and Autonomist Working-Class Value Practices

The Sociological Review, 2011
Theories of the good and proper self (the governmental normative subject, be it a reflexive, enterprising, individualising, rational, prosthetic, or possessive self) 1 or even the self produced in conditions not of its own making, such as Bourdieu's habitus, all rely on ideas about self-interest, investment and/or ‘playing the game’.
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DO PERSONALITY TRAITS PREDICT WORK VALUES OF CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS?

Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2007
The relationship between the work values and personality of Chinese college students is examined. Qualitative methods were employed to develop work values scale is examined to assess the work values of Chinese college students. A total of 661 students completed a 25-item work values questionnaire and 238 students also completed the Chinese Personality
Denghao Zhang, Dengfeng Wang, Ye Yang, Fei Teng   +3 more
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IMPLEMENTING DIFFERENTIATED PRACTICE: PERSONAL VALUES AND WORK SATISFACTION AMONG HOSPITAL STAFF NURSES

Journal for Nurses in Staff Development (JNSD), 1999
This project was part of a collaborative model for nursing staff development and student education. Personal values and work satisfaction of 49 staff nurses working on three hospital units were compared. One of the units employed differentiated practice. Results revealed high similarity in personal values among all nurses.
M M, Prothero, E S, Marshall, D M, Fosbinder   +2 more
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Environmental “Vitamins”, Personal Judgments, Work Values, and Happiness

2009
Abstract Happiness and unhappiness are major drivers of organizational life, central to the establishment and achievement of goals. They are also significantly linked to several forms of behavior. Correlations between job satisfaction and job performance average about +0.20, with stronger associations in managerial and professional jobs.
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Relating personal values to work engagement

2012
This paper reports on a phenomenological study involving 12 individuals to further explore earlier quantitative findings from 294 working individuals in Singapore, testing the impact of personal values on work engagement. These qualitative findings confirm our previous quantitative findings that in general, value types achievement, security and ...
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Relating personal values to work engagement in Singapore /

2014
Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-267) The research adopted a mixed method design involving two sequential investigations.Study One was a quantitative investigation of 294 individuals from the Singapore public with working experience.
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