Work Values

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An exploratory study of Work Values among doctors of a Women & Child hospital chain in India Sengupta, D. Associate Professor O&LS, Alliance University (debashish@alliance.edu.in ) Sharma, S. Management Trainee, Cloudnine (Sharma_sahil@outlook.com ) Sharma, Y. Assistant Manager HR, Cloudnine (yashu6@gmail.com ) Shet, S. Manager HR, Cloudnine (romey123@gmail.com ) Siddharth S.N. Chief People Officer & Business Development, Cloudnine (naga.siddharth@gmail.com) Abstract Given healthcare sector’s growth, and in specific the arrival of single speciality chains of Women and child hospitals, the authors explore the work values of doctors and compare them across gender, generations and specialization. The findings have implications in business practice …show more content…

From this we can infer work value as “the worth or excellence or degree of worth ascribed to particular work activity or an aspect of the work” (Rao,T.V.1974). Another study by Reddy and Parameswaran (1966) used the value scale to understand the value pattern of students from different academic backgrounds (Allport-Vernon-Lindzey. 1960). “This scale outlined six major value types –Theoretical, Economic, Aesthetic, Social, Political, Religious” (Rao,T.V.1974 …show more content…

Also women are more interested in social occupations and men more in enterprising occupations (Berings, D. Adriaenssens, S. 2011). In an investigation to find out the relationship between the work values and career maturity among the school children it was concluded that work value and career maturity differ according to the gender (Phyllis,P.K. 1987). In another research to understand the gender differences in work value, it was found that women were found to place greater importance on extrinsic values whereas men considered intrinsic values more important,( Rowe,R. Snizek,W.E.1995) and men also had higher rank and higher task, team and status satisfaction than the female employees ( Cheung,C.K,2014). Given that there seems to be a possible difference in the way members of different genders value Work Values, it is proposed to explore if any differences exist among Genders in this

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