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Contemporary business schools are expected to educate their students to embrace ethical and prosocial values. But can business schools rise to this challenge? Comparing a business school to another professional school, social work, that encourages prosocial values, we investigated value profiles as reflected in school websites and among their students. The findings show that the business school expresses self-enhancement values (power and achievement) more, and prosocial values (benevolence and universalism) less than the social work school. We further investigated self-selection and socialization as complementary organizational processes that may lead to and sustain the value profile of each school. Our findings show that as early as the first week of studies, freshmen's values are congruent with the value profile of their departments, indicating a value-based self-selection process. To investigate socialization, we compared freshmen and seniors and conducted a yearlong study among freshmen. The findings revealed a small change in students' values throughout their training, providing only some support for value socialization. Altogether, our findings suggest that business schools that are interested in prosocial students should attract and select students that emphasize these values, rather than rely on socialization attempts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Copyright of Academy of Management Learning & Education is the property of Academy of Management and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

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Accession Number: 119101135; ARIELI, SHARON 1; SAGIV, LILACH 2; COHEN-SHALEM, EFRAT 2; Affiliations: 1: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Open University of Israel; 2: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Issue Info: Sep2016, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p493; Thesaurus Term: Business education; Thesaurus Term: Business exams; Thesaurus Term: Business schools; Thesaurus Term: Professional schools; Thesaurus Term: Professional education; Thesaurus Term: Trend analysis in business; Thesaurus Term: Economics; Subject Term: Self-confidence; Subject Term: Values (Ethics); Subject Term: Self-esteem; NAICS/Industry Codes: 611310 Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; NAICS/Industry Codes: 611410 Business and Secretarial Schools; NAICS/Industry Codes: 611430 Professional and Management Development Training; Number of Pages: 15p; Illustrations: 9 Charts; Document Type: Article