János Fehér

Leadership – A Values-Work Perspective


Chapter 4. Certain Aspects of the ‘Leaders as Representatives’ Perspective on Leadership

While power and influence had historically been of key importance in interpreting leadership and have remained so to this day, other issues, including the representation of the values of followers, societies, groups and their members by the leaders have also been crucial in gaining insight into this phenomenon. Under the ‘leaders as representatives’ perspective, ‘leaders are those who (1) best represent the values of their followers and (2) are better at solving their followers’ problems and achieving their goals’. (Humphrey, 2014) Through this broad perspective it becomes possible to explore a broad variety of interrelations between leadership and values. The issue of representation is highly related to topics like the service of higher-level goals, morality, the common good and the good of organizational members.

Leadership – A Values-Work Perspective

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2023

ISBN: 978 963 454 874 4

In the final decades of the 20th century, in the era of the birth of the so called ‘new-leadership’ – and at the same time as the growing understanding about organizational culture – work on and through values, as a leverage and component of leadership has gained importance. The issue of values received special emphasis since the GLOBE research identified value-based behaviour as a core element of the (neo-)charisma of leaders. In the light of these conceptual developments, it seems to be paradoxical why values-work has not been more extensively used so far for conceptualizing and defining leadership.

Considering the values context of establishing goals, offering purpose, and meaning, dealing with followers’ perceptions and expectations, promoting a mission, etc., in this book leadership will be dealt with from a values-work perspective.

In the first part some of the underlying and specifically related – including ’transformational’ – leadership historical tendencies will be touched upon.

The subsequent parts will be devoted to conceptual problems of values representation and values-related leadership practices at different, namely interpersonal, organizational, and societal levels.

Beyond theoretical discussions this monograph offers illustrations of some key concepts by including checklists of, survey results about, and examples on values-driven, like transformational and developmental leadership behaviours. This way it can be used not only by academics, students but by leadership practitioners, i.e., ’values workers’ as well.

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