The Structural Organization of Human Values-Evidence from Three Rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS)

Abstract. Gaining maximum benefit of Lean and Agile methods requires a thorough understanding of their assumptions regarding culture, mindset, and values. This paper examines the value system structure of experienced developers working with Lean and Agile methods, and compares it to universal human values and individual personality. We developed and deployed an online survey on Lean and Agile values, with embedded measures for universal values and personality. The resulting data set, with 61 respondents, was analysed using agglomerative hierarchical clustering and multidimensional scaling. A value structure containing 11 Lean and Agile values was uncovered, yielding insight into how Lean and Agile developers experience values in their work. The analysis shows that Lean and Agile values are connected, but not equal, to universal values and personality. The proposed model can help practitioners understand the ethos of Lean and Agile methodologies and to assess their organisational culture. It may also help researchers to study models of software developer experience and value systems.

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“…This is contrary to the situation in, e.g., research on general human values, where such theoretical support does exist (see e.g. [21]). …”

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Examining the Structure of Lean and Agile Values among Software Developers

Fagerholm

Pagels

2014

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

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“…The PVQ Short includes 21 verbal portraits (Bilsky et al 2010;Schwartz et al 2001), each describing a person's aspirations in a way that implicitly points to the personal importance of a certain value type of the circumplex model. Each participant had to complete the PVQ thrice.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two Independent Value Orientations: Ideal and Counter-Ideal Leader Values and Their Impact on Followers’ Respect for and Identification with Their Leaders

2011

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Traditionally, conceptualizations of human values are based on the assumption that individuals possess a single integrated value system comprising those values that people are attracted by and strive for. Recently, however, van Quaquebeke et al. (in J Bus Ethics 93:293-305, 2010) proposed that a value system might consist of two largely independent value orientations-an orientation of ideal values and an orientation of counter-ideal values (values that individuals are repelled by), and that both orientations exhibit antithetic effects on people's responses to the social world. Following a call for further research on this distinction, we conducted two studies to assess the independent effects of ideal and counter-ideal values in leadership settings. Study 1 (N = 131) finds both value orientations to explain unique variance in followers' vertical respect for their leaders. Study 2 (N = 136) confirms these results and additionally shows an analogous effect for followers' identification with their leaders. Most importantly, we find that both value orientations exhibit their effects only independently when the content of the two orientations pertain to different value types in Schwartz's (in J Soc Issues 50:19-46, 1994) circumplex model. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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“…To validate Schwartz's hypothesized circular structure in our sample, we conducted two multidimensional scaling (MDS) analyses (Bilsky, Janik, & Schwartz, 2011). The first analysis plotted the 56 value items, and the second analysis plotted the 10 value types; both analyses use the respective correlation matrix to plot the values in a two dimensional space.…”

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Nonlinear associations between human values and neuroanatomy

Zacharopoulos

Hanel

Lancaster

et al. 2016

Social Neuroscience

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The Structural Organization of Human Values-Evidence from Three Rounds of the European Social Survey (ESS)

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Examining the Structure of Lean and Agile Values among Software Developers

Examining the Structure of Lean and Agile Values among Software Developers

Two Independent Value Orientations: Ideal and Counter-Ideal Leader Values and Their Impact on Followers’ Respect for and Identification with Their Leaders

Nonlinear associations between human values and neuroanatomy

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