Schwartz developed his Theory of Basic Human Values and corresponding instruments, the portrait values questionnaire (PVQ) and the Schwartz values survey (SVS), in order to measure personal values. He uses these instruments (in a slightly modified form) in conjunction with his Theory of Cultural Value Orientations to measure cultural or societal values. His theoretical work is also used in studying organizational values; however, none of these instruments seem suitable to compare personal and perceived organizational values. If the PVQ is widely used to measure personal values, and we need commensurate measures of the person and organization for comparative analysis, then can we not minimally adjust the PVQ to measure organizational values? In this article we discuss the testing of one such adjusted PVQ used for gauging universities’ organizational values. We developed the PVQ-uni to measure university values as perceived by students. We collected data from sociology departments at two universities, one in Austria (n = 133) and one Nigeria (n = 156). We then tested the reliability and the validity of the new instrument. Based on the data collected, we found that the PVQ-uni is a reliable and valid instrument; however, further refinements are needed for the instrument to be used successfully in Africa.

Schwartz开发了他的基本人类价值理论和相应的工具，肖像价值调查表（PVQ）和Schwartz价值观调查（SVS），以衡量个人价值。他将这些工具（略微修改后的形式）与他的文化价值取向理论一起使用衡量文化或社会价值。他的理论工作还用于研究组织价值。但是，这些工具似乎都不适合比较个人和感知的组织价值。如果PVQ广泛用于衡量个人价值，并且我们需要对个人和组织进行相称的衡量以进行比较分析，那么我们是否不能最小化调整PVQ来衡量组织价值？在本文中，我们讨论了一种用于衡量大学组织价值的调整后PVQ的测试。我们开发了PVQ-uni来衡量学生所感知的大学价值。我们从两所大学的社会学部门收集了数据，其中一所在奥地利（n = 133），另一所在尼日利亚（n= 156）。然后，我们测试了新仪器的可靠性和有效性。根据收集到的数据，我们发现PVQ-uni是一种可靠且有效的仪器。但是，要使该仪器在非洲成功使用，还需要进一步完善。