Emotional Adjustment, Social Organization and Psychiatric Treatment Rates

Mexican society are reflected in the measures of the behaviorial intent of otherwise comparable Anglo-American and Mexican subjects. The marginal Mexican-Americans, though still influenced by their parent culture, tend to favor the universalistic value orientation of the country in which they now work and live, and within whose status structure they now function. The pattern of results also indicates that particularistic individuals tend to be alienated from work in the universalistically oriented formal organization of a bank. This suggests that the compatibility of the individual's value orientations with the expectations of the work organization is one determinant of alienation from work. In this study, however, a highly particularistic value orientation was not always associated with a high degree of alienation, and correlations between alienation and particularism, though in the expected direction, were very low for the Mexican and Mexican-American groups. The interaction between individual and organization, is complex, and other job factors may compensate for or offset the impact of a specific value conflict. The influence of value orientations, as components both of organization and personality, has largely been overlooked in considerations of the fusion between individual and organization. These value structures, their sources, points of conflict, and their effects on behaviorial expectations are an important part of the dynamic of organizational behavior. We have attempted to measure the impact of conflict concerning one value orientation, and to analyze its influence on organizational expectations and occupational success.