 Objecting authority: a multi-cultural assessment of non-capitalistic work valuesBen Bulmash International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2021, vol. 27, issue 4, 451-466 Abstract: Organisations in developed countries are often submerged in capitalistic ideals, where the 'bottom line' mentality promoted by leading financial institutions direct all decision making and work activities. Individuals, nonetheless, may choose jobs and employers, and be motivated to work for a variety of reasons that may not correspond to corporate capitalistic ideals. Although individuals may not be fully aware of their incongruent needs and values, these preferences nonetheless could entail potentiality for work disruptions in the form of everyday resistance. In this work, I study the relationship between employees' organisational fit based on capitalistic ideals and attitude toward following supervisor's work instructions in five OECD countries. Workers' responses depict a workforce in which non-capitalistic ideals strongly compete with the capitalistic value system. Employees' value incongruence shows to result in undesirable organisational outcomes, which according to the study findings, could possibly be avoided by organisations and societies as a whole. Keywords: capitalism; non-capitalistic work values; obedience; authority; person-organisation fit; resistance; OECD; value congruence. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijbglo:v:27:y:2021:i:4:p:451-466 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Business and Globalisation from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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