– establishing the significance of various groups of values in management and priorities in this field;

– specifying the impact of values on management in organizations of various types;

– establishing, which values gain in terms of importance and which ones lose importance;

– establishing the significance of the chosen economic values (long-term and medium-term profit, competitiveness, innovativeness and effectiveness);

– establishing the significance of the chosen non-economic values(sustainable growth, corporate responsibility, dignity-based values, trust, balancing professional work and other) dimensions of life (personal and family dimensions, spiritual dimensions, participation in culture, social and political life, etc.), broad perception of (not only in an economic dimension) quality, justice and honesty;

– establishing and analysing common values in the analysed organizations;

– recognising the values respected in the personnel policy (in terms of decisions relating to recruitment and redundancies, promotions and demotions, evaluation of work and employees, remuneration, intangible rewards);

– establishing to what extent and in what way values may be availed of in terms of professional management while taking account of the specifics of entities of various legislative and organizational forms.

Values are always taken into account in management and have a driving force, even if this is not done in a very conscious manner. Understanding this fact may have positive impact on the attitude of the management staff and employees in terms of values.

A similar notion may be expressed in the following words: Management devoid of values is impossible and does not exist in practice even when the management staff renounce management that respects values. Hence, it is not the case of whether values are respected as certain values are always respected, but rather which values are acknowledged as being important and what their hierarchy is, while also which values in reality (and not only in postulates or desires) constitute the motivation to undertake action on their bases.