TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the constituents of personal discretionary non-work activities and their influence on the work values ethic (WVE).Design/methodology/approach The constituents of personal discretionary non-work activities and their relationship to the WVE for 1,349 employees drawn from three manufacturing companies were surveyed. The data was used to test a measure of WVE, to develop a valid measure of personal discretionary non-work activities and to test a model of the relationship between personal discretionary non-work activities and a WVE.Findings Data obtained from the survey enabled the identification of a valid measure of personal discretionary non-work activities and the components that made up this measure. A measure of WVE was shown to be both valid and reliable, and a model of the relationship between personal discretionary non-work activities and WVE was tested.Research limitations/implications A positive relationship between personal discretionary non-work activities and WVE was identified. However, the study was not designed to investigate motivations and such relationships should be the subject of future research.Practical implications Personal discretionary non-work activities were shown to be of importance for a major proportion of the study’s respondents and to contribute to the employees’ work ethic.Originality/value The study has extended the non-work and work literature and has identified a formative non-work measure that was able to be tested in an overall model.
VL  - 40
IS  - 4
SN  - 0143-7720
DO  - 10.1108/IJM-04-2018-0133
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-04-2018-0133
AU  - McMurray Adela
AU  - Scott Don
AU  - Simmers Claire A.
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Work values ethic and personal discretionary non-work activities
T2  - International Journal of Manpower
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 704
EP  - 716
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -