Value models: analytical review for evidence of a common structure

Abstract

Organizations are witnessing and practicing what we can call the new wave of changes in the globally competing businesses. And if we can classify and call the first wave of changes as the changes in the structure and the non human resources, then the second wave we are concerned with during the recent years can be called the change in the human resources and the organizational culture. The changes in the rules of the game for the organizations through the dramatic changes in the international political and economic relations had eased and facilitated the transmission and growth of the organizations in general, but that caused changes in the organizations in terms of the diversity in the workforce and the necessity to work in different countries. This on the other hand has brought under focus the need for the intercultural research to provide the management with the necessary knowledge and tools that is needed to run its global operations.