The paper deals with the change of management values in Estonian business life in the year of the rapid growth (2007) as compared with the year of hard decline (2009). The hypothesis is set that company managers d...The paper deals with the change of management values in Estonian business life in the year of the rapid growth (2007) as compared with the year of hard decline (2009). The hypothesis is set that company managers do not have permanent values but they change accordingly to the change in economic conditions: in economical welfare situations business-managers more eagerly take larger responsibilities on ethical and philantrophical stages but in crisis only the lower stages (economical and legal ones) could be detained. In the paper, we firstly observe if values change in general and secondly we study if our pre-stated hypothesis holds. As the research method we use the method of critical incidents展开更多
文摘The paper deals with the change of management values in Estonian business life in the year of the rapid growth (2007) as compared with the year of hard decline (2009). The hypothesis is set that company managers do not have permanent values but they change accordingly to the change in economic conditions: in economical welfare situations business-managers more eagerly take larger responsibilities on ethical and philantrophical stages but in crisis only the lower stages (economical and legal ones) could be detained. In the paper, we firstly observe if values change in general and secondly we study if our pre-stated hypothesis holds. As the research method we use the method of critical incidents