A Twenty-First Century Assessment of Values Across the Global Workforce

This article provides current Schwartz Values Survey (SVS) data from samples of business managers and professionals across 50 societies that are culturally and socioeconomically diverse. We report the society scores for SVS values dimensions for both individual- and societal-level analyses. At the individual-level, we report on the ten circumplex values sub-dimensions and two sets of values dimensions (collectivism and individualism; openness to change, conservation, self-enhancement, and self-transcendence). At the societal-level, we report on the values dimensions of embeddedness, hierarchy, mastery, affective autonomy, intellectual autonomy, egalitarianism, and harmony. For each society, we report the Cronbach’s α statistics for each values dimension scale to assess their internal consistency (reliability) as well as report interrater agreement (IRA) analyses to assess the acceptability of using aggregated individual level values scores to represent country values. We also examined whether societal development level is related to systematic variation in the measurement and importance of values. Thus, the contributions of our evaluation of the SVS values dimensions are two-fold. First, we identify the SVS dimensions that have cross-culturally internally reliable structures and within-society agreement for business professionals. Second, we report the society cultural values scores developed from the twenty-first century data that can be used as macro-level predictors in multilevel and single-level international business research.

Ian Palmer | Ruth Alas | Carolyn P. Egri | Vojko Potocan | Tevfik Dalgic | Philip Hallinger | David A. Ralston | Irina Naoumova | Olivier Furrer | Narasimhan Srinivasan | David M. Brock | Tomasz Lenartowicz | Ho-Beng Chia | Alan Wallace | Isabelle Maignan | David Brock | Audra I. Mockaitis | Yong-lin Moon | Detelin S. Elenkov | Prem Ramburuth | Erna Szabo | Marina Dabic | R. Alas | Olivier Furrer | Philip Hallinger | N. Srinivasan | Prem Ramburuth | I. Maignan | L. Milton | Erna Szabo | C. Deusen | Tevfik Dalgic | H. Chia | Yongjuan Li | M. Ansari | Chay Hoon Lee | P. Fu | Irina Naoumova | A. Pekerti | D. Ralston | I. Palmer | Moureen M. L. Tang | V. Potocan | F. Wangenheim | T. Lenartowicz | Liesl Riddle | A. Butt | Jane Terpstra-Tong | C. Egri | David M Brock | W. Danis | A. Rossi | M. Kangasniemi | Marina Dabić | E. Reynaud | Fidel León Darder | C. Kuo | Jaime Ruiz Gutiérrez | Arunas Starkus | Vu Thanh Hung | M. Molteni | María Teresa Garza Carranza | Francisco B. Castro | Yong-lin Moon | Ilya Girson | Modestas Gelbūda | T. Casado | Malika Richards | P. Wan | Yongquin Fan | Alan Wallace | Ping-Ping Fu | Liesl Riddle | Malika Richards | Emmanuelle Reynaud | Yongjuan Li | Florian Wangenheim | Andre Pekerti | Tania Casado | Ana Maria Rossi | Arif Butt | Jane Terpstra-Tong | Laurie Milton | Mahfooz Ansari | Arunas Starkus | Mario Molteni | Chay-Hoon Lee | Wade Danis | Ilya Girson | Detelin Elenkov | Christine Kuo | Maria Kangasniemi | Modesta Gelbuda | Cheryl Deusen | Paulina Man Kei Wan | Moureen Tang | Yongquin Fan | I. Naoumova | F. L. Darder | A. Starkus | V. Potočan | Mario Molteni

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