ABSTRACT
Twenty-ve years ago, I conducted a study comparing work values and job attitudes of two distinct populations of industrial workers in Israel: those employed in kibbutz factories and similar employees in the private sector. The study’s basic hypotheses concerned the cultural differences between the two populations, one presumed to be individualistic, the other collectivistic. The expected differences were indeed conrmed (Ronen, 1977, 1978). Having been part of the social milieu of the kibbutz in the past, I was not surprised by these results.
