MANAGERIAL VALUES AND ETHOS-1

Posted by on December 3rd, 2008 at 10:40pm

Kar Win wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
In the earlier section, we have indicated that the managerial values affect perceived characteristics of the internal environment of an organization. At this juncture you may well ask what some of these values are. How do these values develop? How do they get transmitted from one generation of managers to another? In this section, we are going to explain briefly some of these issues.
 
Ethos refers to habitual character and values of individuals, groups, races, etc. Managerial ethos is concerned with the character and values or managers as a professional group. Contemporary managers hold some specific values which affect work and some of these are: autonomy, equity, security and opportunity. You may recall that individual autonomy is a very important dimension of OC. Enlightened managers believe that most people prefer to feel free and to do things as they like within the constraints imposed by their group. These mangers tend to […]

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