Values are interrelated and cannot be rank-ordered. Avoidance of repetition. Categories not mutually exclusive. Meaning is context dependent. Nature in continually changing requiring allowance for change.
Values interact to generate new values and meanings.
Multiple evolving meanings. The index developed groups information on perceptions of an organizational superior's style, colleague's fear to disagree with the superior, and the type of decision-making that subordinates prefer in a superior. Namely the tolerance for uncertainty which determines choices of technology, rules and rituals to cope with it in organizations. The index developed groups information on rule orientation, employment stability and stress. The index distinguishes between the importance attached to personal life and the importance attached to organizational determination of life style and orientation.