Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Baby Boomers, Millennials, Masculinity

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Tony Francolini

Document Summary

A broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others. Values have to do with what we consider good and bad. Values are motivational, since they signal the attractive aspects of our environment that we week and the unattractive aspects that we try to avoid or change. Signal how we believe we should and should not behave. Values are very general and they do not predict behaviour in specific situations very well. Most values are socially reinforced by parents, teachers, and representatives of religions. Four distinctive generations in the workplace who are often required to work with one another. Often managers who receive foreign assignments terminate them early because they perform poorly or do not adjust to the culture. Failed business negotiations are often attributed to lack of understanding cross-cultural differences. Root of many of these problems is a lack of appreciation of basic differences in work-related values across cultures. Work centrality: work itself is valued differently across cultures.