An Outline of Certain Generic Values - Work Dimensions

Abstract

Background/Purpose: Values-related issues have come into the focus of leadership thinking in the past few decades and it seems to be paradoxical why values work has not been more extensively used so far for defining and conceptualizing leadership. A reason for this can be that values-oriented research streams normally approach leadership from specific perspectives of values representation and transfer. Alternatively, this study examines values work from a generic perspective. Its goal is to suggest a generalized notion for values work and outline certain generic values-work dimensions.

Keywords

• leadership
• power/influence perspective
• new leadership
• representation of followers’ values
• institutional theory
• value-oriented leadership