Public-sector managerial values: United States, Canada, and Japan

Abstract

This paper reports an investigation of the personal-values systems of 567 public-sector managers from the U.S., Canada, and Japan. The results of this research indicate that, despite some specific differences, there is an overarching, coherent North American public-sector managerial values systems. Moreover, it is similar in some ways to that of its Japanese counterparts. However, these values systems - North American and Japanese - are clearly distinct

Citation

Connor, P.E., Becker, B.W., Moore, L.F. and Okubo, Y. (2006), "Public-sector managerial values: United States, Canada, and Japan", International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 147-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-09-02-2006-B001