1. WORK-RELATED BEHAVIORS ACROSS CULTURES

2. In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists
Eric Hoffer
Social Philosopher

3. Goethe:
“ Freuet euch des wahren Scheins,/ Euch des ernsten Spieles:/ Kein Lebendiges ist ein Eins,/ Immer ist’s ein Vieles.“
(“Joy in true semblance take in any/ Earnest play:/ No living thing is one, I say/ But always Many.” – trans. by Christopher Middleton).

4. Values change
Source: Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005: p. 64

5. Materialism Post-materialism
Conservatism Liberalism

6. Kant’s metaphysics Rokeach values survey Substitutable values
Unique values
Rokeach values survey
Terminal values
Instrumental values

7. Work-related values
”By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken.”
A job is just a way of earning money
A job is a duty
A job is a pleasure

8. Internal vs. External career

9. Career anchors (Schein, 1993)
Managerial
Competence
Technical/Functional
Competence
Creativity
Lifestyle
Autonomy and
Independence
Pure challenge
Security/Stability
Service

10. Workplace characteristics - Romania
* This statistic and following are excerpted from The SOROS foundation study on Work-related attitudes in Romania, December 2008

11. Workplace characteristics – Romania vs. rest of the world

12. Workplace characteristics

13. Organizational committment

14. Individualism/ colectivism