Testing a Modified Version of Schwartz’s Portrait Values Questionnaire to Measure Organizational Values in a University Context

IF 0.5 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Human Values Pub Date : 2020-08-26 DOI:10.1177/0971685820943398

Daniela Wetzelhütter, C. Nnebedum, Jacques P. de Wet, J. Bacher

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Abstract

Schwartz developed his Theory of Basic Human Values and corresponding instruments, the portrait values questionnaire (PVQ) and the Schwartz values survey (SVS), in order to measure personal values. He uses these instruments (in a slightly modified form) in conjunction with his Theory of Cultural Value Orientations to measure cultural or societal values. His theoretical work is also used in studying organizational values; however, none of these instruments seem suitable to compare personal and perceived organizational values. If the PVQ is widely used to measure personal values, and we need commensurate measures of the person and organization for comparative analysis, then can we not minimally adjust the PVQ to measure organizational values? In this article we discuss the testing of one such adjusted PVQ used for gauging universities’ organizational values. We developed the PVQ-uni to measure university values as perceived by students. We collected data from sociology departments at two universities, one in Austria (n = 133) and one Nigeria (n = 156). We then tested the reliability and the validity of the new instrument. Based on the data collected, we found that the PVQ-uni is a reliable and valid instrument; however, further refinements are needed for the instrument to be used successfully in Africa.

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基于施瓦茨肖像价值观问卷的大学组织价值观测评

施瓦茨发展了他的基本人类价值观理论和相应的工具，肖像价值观问卷(PVQ)和施瓦茨价值观调查(SVS)，以衡量个人价值观。他使用这些工具(以一种稍微修改的形式)与他的文化价值取向理论相结合来衡量文化或社会价值。他的理论工作也被用于研究组织价值;然而，这些工具似乎都不适合比较个人和感知到的组织价值。如果PVQ被广泛用于衡量个人价值，我们需要对个人和组织进行相应的衡量来进行比较分析，那么我们是否可以最小限度地调整PVQ来衡量组织价值?在本文中，我们讨论了一种用于衡量大学组织价值的调整后的PVQ的测试。我们开发了PVQ-uni来衡量学生所感知的大学价值。我们从两所大学的社会学系收集数据，一所在奥地利(n = 133)，一所在尼日利亚(n = 156)。然后我们测试了新仪器的可靠性和有效性。根据所收集的数据，我们发现PVQ-uni是一种可靠有效的仪器;但是，要使该仪器在非洲成功使用，还需要进一步改进。

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Journal of Human Values SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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1.40

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Human Values is a peer-reviewed tri-annual journal devoted to research on values. Communicating across manifold knowledge traditions and geographies, it presents cutting-edge scholarship on the study of values encompassing a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Reading values broadly, the journal seeks to encourage and foster a meaningful conversation among scholars for whom values are no esoteric resources to be archived uncritically from the past. Moving beyond cultural boundaries, the Journal looks at values as something that animates the contemporary in its myriad manifestations: politics and public affairs, business and corporations, global institutions and local organisations, and the personal and the private.