Leadership values – the perspective of potential managers from poland and Ukraine

Abstract

In social sciences, values are perceived as constructs helpful in understanding human attitudes, views, norms and behaviors. Leadership is still current and deeply explored research problem in the science of nowadays management. The aim of the paper is to identify leadership values, using the perspective of potential managers from Poland and Ukraine. Additionally, the aim of it is to systematize knowledge concerned leadership values treated as an important category functioning in management sciences. It seems to be necessary to underline that the notion of values is used by representatives of many sciences. The conclusions are supported by the results of quantitative research conducted among future managers from Poland and Ukraine. In the questionnaire, the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS) was used.