| Pub. Date | : Jul, 2019 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of Organizational Behavior |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJOB31907 |
| Author Name | : Anuradha Thakur, Monica Bedi and Meenakshi Malhotra |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Management |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 15 |
Work values describe the aspects desirable at work. These encompass the preference of employees at work influenced by individual and social contexts. Although a lot has been talked about work values earlier, this study evaluates its relevance in today’s digital era. Digitalization has brought in dynamism in today’s business world, giving a new meaning to work-related attributes. This has caused new challenges to emerge, demanding colossal changes at workplace. Aspects such as empowerment, job security, congenial working environment, and accomplishment have replaced the traditional beliefs. Taking a sample of 150 employees from leading Information Technology (IT) organizations in India, this study attempts to establish the trends of work values across demographic variables of gender, age, educational qualifications and marital status. Variations of work value dimensions across these variables were found and factors affecting each established.
Examining work values of organizational members has recently caught the attention of many researchers (Elizur, 1984, and 1994; and Judge and Bretz, 1992). Work values are greatly influenced by social contexts and basic individual needs (Salancik and Pfeffer, 1977). There have been many deliberations on how values have transformed over the past years. Work values are considered significant for the evaluation of a workplace, situations at the workplace and the behavioral responses to those situations (Ros et al., 1999; and Gahan and Abeysekera, 2009). Work values signify what individuals can expect from work and act as a reference to assess the situations at the workplace (Dose, 1997). Values guide individuals in deciding how they should behave (Meglino and Ravlin, 1998) and are the foundation for human identity and behavior (Dose, 1999).