The author presents the results of a research focused on finding a number of psychological characteristics of state administration and municipality managers who influence the school system at a regional level. The research, which was oriented towards determination of the value structure and preferences, comes out of the premise that values quite significantly regulate and correct human behaviour. The empiric probe signalizes that the tested persons do not show value recondition consistent with their professional roles and, at the same time, it also aspires to map mutual ties of the researched value aspects with other personality characteristics.

Value is an interdisciplinary term studied by several fields of study. Psychology is one of them; it researches into values mostly in terms of needs, interests and human motivation. Our paper deals with the definition of the terms value, value system and value preferences of high school students. We present some results of broader research that was supposed to find out what is the value orientation of high school students as well as their preferences of terminal and instrumental values.