Work values ethic and personal discretionary non-work activities

Adela McMurray, Don Scott and Claire A. Simmers

International Journal of Manpower, 2019, vol. 40, issue 4, 704-716

Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the constituents of personal discretionary non-work activities and their influence on the work values ethic (WVE). Design/methodology/approach - The constituents of personal discretionary non-work activities and their relationship to the WVE for 1,349 employees drawn from three manufacturing companies were surveyed. The data was used to test a measure of WVE, to develop a valid measure of personal discretionary non-work activities and to test a model of the relationship between personal discretionary non-work activities and a WVE. Findings - Data obtained from the survey enabled the identification of a valid measure of personal discretionary non-work activities and the components that made up this measure. A measure of WVE was shown to be both valid and reliable, and a model of the relationship between personal discretionary non-work activities and WVE was tested. Research limitations/implications - A positive relationship between personal discretionary non-work activities and WVE was identified. However, the study was not designed to investigate motivations and such relationships should be the subject of future research. Practical implications - Personal discretionary non-work activities were shown to be of importance for a major proportion of the study’s respondents and to contribute to the employees’ work ethic. Originality/value - The study has extended the non-work and work literature and has identified a formative non-work measure that was able to be tested in an overall model.

Keywords: Manufacturing industry; Formative structural equations modelling; Personal discretionary non-work activities; Work values ethic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1108/IJM-04-2018-0133

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