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Discovering the Millennials’ Personal Values Orientation: A Comparison to Two Managerial Populations

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Values theory posits that individuals have values and they are formed by upbringing and life’s experiences and influence an individuals’ cognitive processes, decisions, and behavior. Emerging onto the business scene is a new population group, the Millennials. This research seeks to explore Millennials’ values from the viewpoint of their personal value orientation (PVO). Managerial PVO from the 1980s and 2010s are used as comparative populations. The Millennials’ PVO is generally consistent with managerial PVO from past research. They tend toward a Personal, rather than Social, and Competence, rather than Moral, value orientation. Yet, some subtle differences emerged. Millennials are more self-focused and less other-focused than managers from the 1980s or 2010s. They emphasize competency skills more than today’s managers but less than the managers of the 1980s and place more worth on moral values than managers of the 1980s but less than today’s managers.

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  • James Weber, 2017. "Discovering the Millennials’ Personal Values Orientation: A Comparison to Two Managerial Populations," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 143(3), pages 517-529, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:143:y:2017:i:3:d:10.1007_s10551-015-2803-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2803-1
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