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Racko, Girts (2017) Values of bureaucratic work. Sociology - The Journal of the British Sociological Association, 51 (2). pp. 374-392. doi:10.1177/0038038515604106 ISSN 0038-0385.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038515604106
Abstract
While understanding values of bureaucratic work has been a fundamental concern of organizational sociology, research has remained divided over the nature of the values that underpin it. Examining the more generalized sociological insights on the values of bureaucratic work using a rigorous approach to value measurement, this study contributes to the reconciliation of the divergent conceptual insights on these values. Using the European Social Survey data of highly rationalized societies, this study finds employed senior managers to place systematically higher value on self-enhancement and openness to change and lower value on self-transcendence and conservation than their self-employed, entrepreneurial counterparts. The study also contributes to the understanding of the values of bureaucratic work, by examining the value implications of the duration of the employment of senior managers in bureaucratic organizations, and the organizational and the managerial bureaucratization of their work.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bureaucracy -- Sociological aspects, Civil service -- Employees -- Statistics, Executives , Businesspeople | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology - The Journal of the British Sociological Association | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0038-0385 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | 2017 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 51 | ||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 374-392 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0038038515604106 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 May 2016 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 May 2016 |
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