Jaime A. Ruiz‐Gutierrez, Edward F. Murphy, Regina A. Greenwood, Silvia Ines Monserrat, Miguel R. Olivas‐Luján, Sergio Madero, Neusa Maria Bastos F. Santos and Arnel Onesimo O. Uy
The purpose of this paper is to explore work‐family conflict antecedents in four Latin American countries by studying whether marital status and number of children impacted values.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore work‐family conflict antecedents in four Latin American countries by studying whether marital status and number of children impacted values.
Design/methodology/approach
A convenience sample of 3,529 working adults in major cities in Argentina (n=1,198), Brazil (n=186), Colombia (n=989) and Mexico (n=1,156) were surveyed using the Rokeach Value Survey.
Findings
There were statistically significant differences in values depending on marital status for the terminal values an exciting life, national security, and pleasure, and also differences between respondents depending on having or not, and number of children for the terminal values pleasure, national security, and for the instrumental values logical, and polite.
Originality/value
This study fills a research gap, as no previously published studies have explored whether marital status or number of children impact values.
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Shaista E. Khilji, Edward F. Murphy, Regina A. Greenwood and Bahaudin G. Mujtaba
– The purpose of this paper is to expand the burgeoning research, which provides evidence relating to the influence of religion upon work-related values.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to expand the burgeoning research, which provides evidence relating to the influence of religion upon work-related values.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors employed a survey methodology to collect data across seven countries and six religions.
Findings
The study provides evidence of differences as well as similarities in the way people belonging to different religions rank personal values. Thus, on the one hand, the authors can argue that religion helps shape our behavior and attitudes in the workplace, whilst at the same time, however, accepting the converging influence of globalization and/or the universality of some values that they include in their analysis. This finding leads the authors to focus upon a complex pattern of value variations and similarities across religions.
Originality/value
Overall, the findings provide a glimpse into what the paper interprets as (just one dimension of) plurality within contemporary organizations to support the paradox perspective, popularized by Lewis and Smith and Lewis, who contend that organizations embed multiple tensions and dilemmas in an ongoing cyclical process. Hence the paper argues that the similarities and differences across religious affiliations are not “either/or” choices but dualities that must be dynamically balanced in order to simultaneously meet multiple employee needs. The paper concludes that managers and employees need to articulate and embrace paradoxes related to religion, in order to create an awareness of the influence of religion that leads to being inclusive.