The claim that the values espoused by senior managers are important for explaining the way actions are organised inside organisations has been made by a number of organisational psychological reserachers. However, empirical reserach committed to investigating such a proposition has to date been...

The study replicates an Australian configuration study using organisations in New Zealand. The Survey of Organisational Values (SOV) was used to categorise organisations into one of four value types (Elite, Meritocratic, Collegial and Leadership). The Human Resources Practices Survey (HRPS) was...

In this paper, we intend to demonstrate the industrial modernity has in no way altered the old regime structure of Brazilian society. In fact, quite the contrary is true. On the basis of interviews, histories of several large private Brazilian organizations, analyses of published material and...