{"title":"Socioeconomic development and the evolution of workplace values in contemporary Poland","authors":"Habte G. Woldu, Agnieszka Skuza, Pawan Budhwar","doi":"10.1111/emre.12670","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study, using a standardized cultural perspective survey, examines the link between economic transformation and workplace value changes in contemporary Poland. The study surveyed a sample of 870 employees from diverse organizations in major Polish cities. The data were collected during three significant transformational phases: 1995–1999, 2005–2009, and 2015–2019. The findings reveal that post‐transition Polish employees, compared with their early‐transition and late‐transition counterparts, demonstrate higher traits of egalitarianism, less bias towards fellow human beings, and higher self‐reliant behavior in the workplace. This finding is much more robust when controlling for age, in which younger employees, compared with older ones, demonstrate significantly higher traits in the above‐mentioned patterns. The study contributes to management science by enhancing our understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic transformation and value evolution.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"European Management Review","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12670","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study, using a standardized cultural perspective survey, examines the link between economic transformation and workplace value changes in contemporary Poland. The study surveyed a sample of 870 employees from diverse organizations in major Polish cities. The data were collected during three significant transformational phases: 1995–1999, 2005–2009, and 2015–2019. The findings reveal that post‐transition Polish employees, compared with their early‐transition and late‐transition counterparts, demonstrate higher traits of egalitarianism, less bias towards fellow human beings, and higher self‐reliant behavior in the workplace. This finding is much more robust when controlling for age, in which younger employees, compared with older ones, demonstrate significantly higher traits in the above‐mentioned patterns. The study contributes to management science by enhancing our understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic transformation and value evolution.
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The European Management Review is an international journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of management in private and public sector organizations through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis. The European Management Review provides an international forum for dialogue between researchers, thereby improving the understanding of the nature of management in different settings and promoting the transfer of research results to management practice. Although one of the European Management Review"s aims is to foster the general advancement of management scholarship among European scholars and/or those academics interested in European management issues.