The study has aimed to investigate how Human Resources (HR) and management are working to mediate and anchor values in organizations. I have chosen to apply a socio-cultural perspective with the help of artifacts and mediating tools. The issues researched are; (i) “How do organizations mediate and anchor common values, and how does this affect the work with values?”, and (ii) “How can mediation and anchoring in organizations be understood from a socio-cultural perspective, focusing on artifacts and mediating tools?”.I have via e-mail interviewed four people working with HR in four different organizations. When analyzing the empirical data, I have been inspired by phenomenographic analysis selecting and focusing on important concepts, similarities, and differences in the responses from the informants. Within the socio-cultural perspective, the key aspects are communication and, above all, language. Artifacts and mediating tools may be considered intellectual or physical tools that we develop together with others through our thoughts and language. Values in organizations can be regarded as one such artifact or tool. The informants in the study consider work on values being a successful way to control and guide its organizations, particularly noting the importance of participation and commitment of all employees. Further, an important factor for the work on values to be overall successful, the work needs to be established and secured at all stages and in all processes. For a clear and interpretive leadership to build trust among the employees, decisions need to be based on a designed value system. With the socio-cultural perspective and artifacts and mediating tools, communication and knowledge appeared to be of great importance, which strengthens the thesis that mediating and anchoring is a prerequisite for the work on values to be meaningful. The intellectual tools provide a way to manage and control through language, and relating to values is a prerequisite to be part of an organization.

L’éducation à la biodiversité, au sein de l’éducation au développement durable connait de nombreuses difficultés du fait de la nature complexe de ce concept et des savoirs associés qui ne sont pas stabilisés. Les intentions éducatives des enseignants de l’école primaire, porteuses de valeurs, entrainent des choix didactiques spécifiques. Les différentes stratégies didactiques mises en œuvre pour aborder cette éducation ont des effets différents sur les apprentissages des connaissances et des comportements. Nous cherchons à mettre en évidence dans cette recherche les liens entre les intentions éducatives des enseignants et les apprentissages effectifs des élèves en fin de scolarité primaire (cycle 3). / Biodiversity education, within sustainable development education, is problematic because the complex nature of this concept and the unstable nature of the knowledge. The teacher’s educational intentions in primary school blear many values and lead to specific didactic choices. Different strategies used to convey this education have different effects on the learning acquisition: knowledge and behaviour. In this research we want to underline the links between the teacher educational intentions and the pupils’ real learning at the end of primary school.