A STUDY OF THE COMMUNALITY OF INDUSTRIAL VALUES ACROSS CULTURES.

This study investigates industrial values in eight national cultures: Argentina, Canada, France, West Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It assumes that cultures influence employee perceptions of industrial values. The attitudinal results indicates that a communality based on employees' Industrial values, exists among the eight cultures. A ranking technique, used to expose perceptual differences, exhibits a fairly constant pattern of agreement on the value items across the eight cultures. Likewise, a Q-factor analysis of the eight countries in terms of the value items, reveals a single cultural cluster. Indicating that the Industrial values may reflect the attitudes of an industrial milieu, rather than "organizational" culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]