Work values of Turkish and American university students

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dc.citation.epage223en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage205en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber80en_US
dc.contributor.authorKarakitapoǧlu-Aygün, Z.en_US
dc.contributor.authorArslan, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGüney, S.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T10:08:51Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T10:08:51Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Managementen_US
dc.description.abstractThe first aim of this paper was to investigate how the traditional Protestant work ethic (PWE) and more contemporary work values (i.e., masculine, feminine, and entrepreneurship values) were related to one another, and differed across genders and two cultural contexts, namely Turkey and the U.S. The second aim was to elucidate the role of religiosity in PWE among the two cultural groups. Two hundred and sixty six American and 211 Turkish university students participated in this questionnaire study. The analyses examining cross-cultural differences revealed that Turkish university students reported greater scores in the PWE and all contemporary work values as compared to their American counterparts. For the Turkish sample, there were no gender-related differences in the PWE, whereas in the U.S. sample, men reported greater PWE scores than did women. With regard to gender differences in contemporary work values, our results showed that gender groups differed in feminine and entrepreneurship values in both cultural contexts; men emphasized femininity and entrepreneurship more than women in Turkey but the reverse was true in the U.S. Correlations between contemporary work values and the PWE illustrated that the PWE is associated with entrepreneurship and masculine values in both cultural contexts and with feminine values in the Turkish context. Finally, our results regarding the role of religiosity in PWE indicated that highly religious participants reported greater PWE scores than the less religious ones regardless of culture. Findings are discussed with reference both to differences in the two socio-cultural contexts and to recent change in the social structure of Turkish society.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10551-007-9413-5en_US
dc.identifier.issn0167-4544
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/23095
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9413-5en_US
dc.source.titleJournal of Business Ethicsen_US
dc.subjectCultural differencesen_US
dc.subjectMasculine, feminine and entrepreneurship valuesen_US
dc.subjectReligiosityen_US
dc.subjectThe protestant work ethicen_US
dc.subjectWork valuesen_US
dc.titleWork values of Turkish and American university studentsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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