Search results for "VALUE ORIENTATIONS"

Preliminary organizational culture scale focused on artifacts

2006

In this preliminary study, an organizational culture scale was developed to assess cultural artifacts according to Schein´s typology (1985). It includes a set of cultural artifacts to measure the extent to which an organization is more or less traditional. A total of 249 managers from a range of different companies responded to the items. Preliminary analysis yielded a one-dimensional scale with 14 items with high internal consistency and homogeneity.

Testing the Trust Game with undergraduates: An experiment with wealth heterogeneity

2017

Ponència presentada a 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd’17, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, 2017 Trust, reciprocity and a fair distribution of resources are cruzial in the sustainability of any economic system. As a matter of fact, those are values that should be promoted among the new generations, especially among university students enrolled in degrees that are related to economics. Under this context, we are interested in enhancing criticism and active reflection among undergraduates with respect to social values. With such a goal in mind, we designed a two step classroom task that includes playing the Trust Game (TG) in the first place and, s…

Value congruence in health care priority setting: social values, institutions and decisions in three countries

2014

AbstractMost developed democracies have faced the challenge of priority setting in health care by setting up specialized agencies to take decisions on which medical services to include in public health baskets. Under the influence of Daniels and Sabin’s seminal work on the topic, agencies increasingly aim to fulfil criteria of procedural justice, such as accountability and transparency. We assume, however, that the institutional design of agencies also and necessarily reflects substantial value judgments on the respective weight of distributive principles such as efficiency, need and equality. The public acceptance of prioritization decisions, and eventually of the health care system at lar…

50 Shades of Green: Insights into Personal Values and Worldviews as Drivers of Green Purchasing Intention, Behaviour, and Experience

2021

Despite the booming interest in determinants of green (i.e., sustainable) consumption, the psychological factors that influence pro-environmental consumption patterns are not yet fully understood. To answer this call, we developed and analysed a model that offers an integrative approach to sustainable consumption patterns by addressing the full palette of consumers’ personal value orientations. Specifically, we linked consumers’ egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric values at the personal level to pro-environmental purchasing intentions, behaviours, and experiences. Furthermore, we examined whether implicit beliefs about the balance between humanity and nature (i.e., worldviews) moderate the…

Topicality of Critical Thinking in the Post-Soviet Educational Space

2009

After the reestablishment of independence in 1991, Latvia implemented large-scale educational reforms that enabled the transformation of the educational system from Soviet ideology to a democratic society. The critical thinking approach has been purposefully put into practice in the educational system of Latvia since 1998, as it was regarded as an instrument of the education and democratization of the whole society. The Soviet ideological heritage, which is manifest in the value orientation and daily experience of teachers and parents, encumbers the implementation of the educational reform, as it creates a gap between the reform's objectives and the reality of modifications at the level of …

Parental Socialization and Its Impact across the Lifespan

2020

Classical studies have found that parental warmth combined with parental strictness is the best parental strategy to promote children&rsquo

[The importance of socio-cultural factors for the development of speech and language].

2004

Educational experiences and perceptions of occupational hierarchies: The case of the Norwegian working class

2019

In this article we present the experiences of members of the Norwegian working class in the educational system and show that the findings contradict established theories in the sociology of education in a way that calls for a re-examination of the function of societal hierarchies in such studies. Secondly, we report how working-class individuals comprehend society’s valuation of their work and whether these experiences affect their own judgments and evaluations of work. The findings reveal an enlightened working class when it comes to conventional occupational hierarchies, but also show that members of the working class classify status in their own, distinctive way. The egalitarian cultural…

Ethical Banking and Conventional Banking. Triodos Bank vs Banco Santander

2019

La crisis financiera de 2008 ha provocado cambios en la estructura bancaria tradicional, generando una desconfianza por parte de los ciudadanos con el sistema financiero tradicional, como consecuencia de ello ha surgido otro tipo de banca, la Banca Ética. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar si la Banca Ética puede llegar a ser igual de rentable que la Banca Tradicional, invirtiendo principalmente en valores sociales. Para ello, se realiza un análisis comparativo entre la Banca Ética (Triodos Bank) y la Banca Tradicional (Banco Santander). Para alcanzar el objetivo propuesto se realiza un análisis económico centrado en la actividad financiera de ambas tipologías de bancos durante el perí…

Parenting Styles, Internalization of Values and Self-Esteem: A Cross-Cultural Study in Spain, Portugal and Brazil

2020

The present study analyzes the impact of parenting styles on adolescents&rsquo