Work related values and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe

Borgulya, Ágnes; Háhn, Judit

doi:10.5771/0949-6181-2008-3-216

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“…In general, for Europeans and Slovenians the most important life sphere is family, whereas work comes second. In Slovenia, the importance of work (62% of respondents perceive it as very important) is higher than the European average of 57% and the Central and Eastern Europe average of 60% (Borgulya/Hahn, 2008). Slovenian managers perceive work as extremely important as they spend between 45 and 60 hours a week at work.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…The analysis of work-related values and motivating factors in Central and Eastern European countries supports the hypothesis. Slovenians indeed perceive different motivating factors as important in comparison with other countries (Borgulya/Hahn 2008). Bardi, 1997 Conservatism and hierarchy values are more important while egalitarianism, intellectual autonomy, affective autonomy and mastery values are less important in Eastern than in Western Europe.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Corparate managers and their potential younger successors. An examination of their values

Mihelic¹,

Lipičnik²

2010

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Human values are individual characteristics that vary in importance and serve as guiding principles in a person's life. The purpose of this paper is to identify the values held today by Slovenian managers and students and contributes to the few studies that have examined the influence of age on values. The exploratory study comprises 130 managers and 118 students majoring in management. The managers highly value health, family happiness, honesty, freedom and wisdom, whereas the students perceive as the most important good friends, knowing oneself, health, freedom, loyalty and family happiness.

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Section: The Most Important Values For the Managers And Studentsmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Corparate managers and their potential younger successors. An examination of their values

Mihelic¹,

Lipičnik²

2010

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“…Their answer is that the policy efforts were not reflected in the attitudinal development in the same period, keeping employment commitment generally high in Denmark and Sweden and comparatively low in Great Britain and Hungary. On the other hand, according to Borgulya and Hahn (2008), people in Eastern Europe are more likely to consider work "very important" than in Northern and Western Europe, but many other variations are found within the CEE countries. Therefore, we would argue, that (a) the assumption of cultural transferability of these results is to be challenged, and results re-evaluated within specific cultural and structural settings; (b) a look behind the policy scene towards more micro-and meso-level aspects being stressed (and policy non-responsiveness decoded); and last but not least (c) the partial emphasis within available studies on early-exit versus prolonged working careers should be supplemented.…”

Section: Retirement Plans Preferences and Work Values -The Empiricalmentioning

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Preference theory in advanced age and the older Czech workforce

Vidovičová¹

2014

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In this article we make use of preference theory developed by Hakim (2000) in the context of reconciling work and family to cover and explain different patterns of retirement exit paths and retirement satisfaction levels in the Czech Republic. We propose that lifestyle preferences and values may help to explain why some older workers continue to work while others are determined to retire as early as possible. Three types are identified among the 55-65 age group: work oriented, retirement oriented, and adaptive. The data shows that self-perception of the respondent as being active or more rest-oriented is associated with actual labour market activity of the respondent. Different types also perceive and evaluate labour market exit differently, and most importantly they differ in their reaction to various labour market and pension policies and family/partnership conditions. In the discussion we challenge the notion of active ageing as a general "one-size-fits-all" policy and urge that more attention be paid to the role of individual values and preferences when looking at the organisation of latter life roles.

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“…Italy and Malta are both Mediterranean welfare states with many similarities and were thus integrated into one category (see Gal, 2010 ; Romano, 2022 ). Hungary, Slovenia, and Slovakia are all Eastern European welfare states sharing many commonalities and were therefore combined into one category (see Borgulya & Hahn, 2013 ; Deacon, 2000 ; Mezei, 2012 ; Školkay, 2002 ). Alternative combinations of nations (including Cyprus with Malta, Spain with Malta, Slovakia with Bulgaria, and Slovakia with Latvia) within each of these two groupings of welfare states that permitted our models to converge produced substantively identical results.…”

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