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importance included politeness, obedience, and cleanliness regardless of<br />

the CEO's age or gender.<br />

Table 12<br />

Mean Scores of CEO Self-Rated Instrumental Values<br />

Mean of Mean of Mean of Mean of Mean of<br />

All CEOs Female Male CEOse ' CEOsl<br />

CEOs CEOs Age 50 Age 50<br />

N 59 14 45 28 31<br />

Honest<br />

Responsible<br />

Capable<br />

Courageous<br />

Ambitious<br />

Loyal<br />

Intellectual<br />

Independent<br />

Helpful<br />

Loving<br />

Logical<br />

Forgiving<br />

Broad-minded<br />

Imaginative<br />

Polite<br />

Obedient<br />

Clean<br />

Instrumental and terminal values were further categorized into<br />

collectivist and individualist subsets (as outlined Chapter 3, Table 1)<br />

resulting in a mean score for each subcategory (Table 13). Lower scores<br />

in each subset factor suggested a higher level importance to the<br />

individual. Observation of the data revealed that the CEOs had stronger<br />

instrumental individualistic (11) scores than instrumental collectivist (IC)<br />

scores. They also had stronger terminal collectivistic (TC) scores than<br />

terminal individualistic (TI) scores. These findings indicate that, contrary

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