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 relationaship between organisations' value system and their human resource management (HRM) system is investigated surveying human resource managers in 443 Australian organisations. Organisations were grouped into four main value types - Elite, Leadership, Meritocratic and Collegial,...

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...

This paper sets out to examine the extent to which the cross-cultural management (CCM) literature acknowledges the effects of national culture on differentially shaping subordinate perceptions of what constitutes "good" or "effective" management.