English abstract
This study is an attempt to extrapolate contemporary social transformations and their impact on the system of work values in the light of the specificity of the Omani society, where the arena has recently witnessed transformations that accompanied contemporary changes, which added to work a new concept and then a new system of values in which the transition is made from material values to post-material values, especially those related to development. Autonomy, focus on responsibility and initiative. Here, the legacy of social science reveals that there are clear repercussions of societal transformation processes from within, where shifts in the structure of the labor force and its sectoral distribution - especially in the developing countries - indicate that it was subjected to rapid changes that left what is known as duplication, i.e. a disparity between the work sectors in terms of modernizing the means of production, and then Labor productivity. The most backward sectors maintain employment rates that do not meet productivity standards and at the expense of performance standards and product quality. There are business sectors that responded to changes in work systems through important adjustments in favor of adapting to the changes taking place. Hence, there is a duality within work values revealed by the work sociology literature, which is work values and new work values.
