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Covenons! We Owe Our Store to the Company's Soul...

Charles J. Yoos II is Professor (Management), School of Business Administration, Fort Lewis College, EBH 160, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301 USA. E-mail: yoos_c{at}fortlewis.edu

James R. Barker

James R. Barker is Professor (Organizational Theory and Strategy), Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management, Waikato Management School, Waikato University, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. E-mail:jbarker{at}waikato.ac.nz

We argue that in contemporary business organizations, in which fundamental purpose is construed to be increased value—especially in ‘participative’ organizations, in which non–hierarchal interaction (for example, work teams) is the norm; and in ‘adaptive’ organizations, in which unpredictable change is the rule—a process of values covenanting will be much more valueable than just espoused values or even values covenants. We propose such a process model for organizational values covenanting and argue that such covenanting reflects an anthropomorphism of the human character development process, validated in terms of the theory of viable systems.

Journal of Human Values, Vol. 14, No. 2, 141-155 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/097168580801400205


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