Estudio de congruencia de valores en Ecuador: Diferencia entre el sector público y privado

Abstract

Congruence of values is defined as a coincidence or similarity of values between an individual and an organization; until now we did not have a measurement tool that suits our reality. The APO Inventory for the measurement of the adjustment person organization presents three measurable factors: the recognition of organizational values, conflict and adjustment person organization which can Measured independently. Through the application of the APO inventory, 1137 employees from the public, private and mixed sectors were evaluated in order to determine if there are differences in the congruence of values between these sectors and to elaborate an explanatory model of the congruence between personal values and That is valid for Ecuador. The data obtained indicate that at the general level there are statistically significant correlations between recognition, adjustment and conflict, being the correlations between recognition and conflict, and between adjustment and conflict low. The correlation between recognition and adjustment is high and strong. As for the level of recognition of values, there are significant statistically differences between firms in the public and mixed sectors compared to the private sector (p <0.05); Statistically significant differences were observed regarding to conflict and adjustment (p <0.05). In conclusion, in terms of value congruence, there were no significant differences between the public and mixed sectors; While with respect to the private the differences of both sectors are statistically significant which is related to the legal form of the institutions