The place of human values in organisations today has become a
topical issue and has generated robust . discussion among value
scholars and management practitioners. As competition and rivalry
for market leadership have become stiff, organisations have begun
to look inwards into evolving ethical and human value-based
practices as a form of competitive advantage and in developing an
attractive workplace. The realm of management that began with
starched devotion to the scientific approach where workers were
seen as a means and not the end in the production process and
were treated as mechanistic items and economic articles that are to
aid the realisation of organisational goals has given way to the
human relations and behavioural schools which respected workers,
emphasised the need to motivate them and sought to create an
attractive work environment that aimed to achieve a marriage of
organizational development with workers' development. Therefore,
focus has consistently shifted towards value-based models of growth
in the workplace. Modem organisations require a new corporate
model based on ethical practices and human values and
organizations in Nigerian must increasingly submit their business
processes and operations to align with these global best practices.
This paper considers the place of management and human values in
Nigeria from a theoretical approach