Enquiry of Unique Human Values: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

The concept of human values has been in the fields of psychology, philosophy, ethics, social sciences, health, environmental management and business. However, this overabundance of research in different fields resulting in different values, measuring methodologies and instruments, conspicuously showing the lack of agreement on its content and structure. Thus in this study, review is presented on values concepts, its diverse categories and lack of consensus on uniqueness of human values among researchers. The importance and need of such investigation is not only highlighted, but also carried out by performing systematic literature review (SLR) on human, individual or personal values (H-I-P). In particularly, the range of values for H-I-P is identified and enlisted from the literature and convert these explicit, implicit and conceptual duplication to unique values by applying constant comparison and memoing techniques of grounded theory. Finally these unique H-I-P values are grouped and classified, based on common characteristic and existing literature. This values list not only integrates scholars by providing foundation of unique H-I-P values, but also act as a reference list of values contents, for futuristic research.

Keywords: Human values, systematic literature review (SLR), unique values, values contents Human or individual or personal (H-I-P) values, grounded theory