Comparing corporate managers' personal values over three decades, 1967-1995

What is the nature of the decision-related personal values of corporate man agement? Managers' attitudes and behaviors are built upon their personal va lue systems (PVS). Knowledge about the structure of management's PVS assist s in understanding the attributes of corporate decision making. Utilizing a survey instrument developed and used by England (1967, 1975), this article updates this research into corporate managers' personal value systems. Eng land's PVS consists of sixty-six pre-tested values clustered into five grou ps. As one could expect with personal values, statistical tests reveal that even with dramatic changes in the business environment the overall persona l values structure has not changed over the intervening three decades. The results also reveal that corporate managers retain their pragmatic value or ientation as discussed by England.