The inspiration for research was the conviction that management may be more accepted, effective and efficient, while the management team more credible, the co-workers more strongly motivated and convinced of the sense of what they do if it is based on the acknowledged values. It has been assumed that management in harmony with values shall be better adopted and proceed more easily than management with the violation of the respected values or disregarding their existence and ignoring these values. Such assumptions would seem to be common sense and rather obvious, albeit only in a world where values and principles have survived and defended themselves and in which there is still room for values. As a multitude of varying opinions have been voiced on the issue of the nature of the contemporary world in this very context, this thesis need not have been so obvious.

We have analysed a certain small section of the world – the representatives of only some enterprises functioning in Poland. One of the aims of the research was to become familiar with the opinions of managers and specialists in organizations of varying types with relation to values, their significance and validity / rank of importance in organizations functioning in Poland in which they are employed. In a manner of speaking, this therefore also related to testing whether and to what extent we are dealing with “post-modernity” and how “fluid” in terms of professional and organizational environments.

The results of research have turned out to be in general optimistic and uplifting. The decisive majority of the managers and specialists surveyed expressed the conviction in a variety of ways that values are currently fulfilling a significant role in the management of their organizations. A similar case applies to the enterprises described within the framework of case studies. These results have been rather extensively described in sections I and II of the herein report on the research, thus there is no need to refer to them once more.