János Fehér

Leadership – A Values-Work Perspective


Historical concepts of organizational management

The need for non-routine people management practices and leadership influence tools is especially marked in business and societal organizational segments where employees have tasks of critical importance; job processes are not or not sufficiently transparent (jobs are not easy to monitor or control through routine/traditional methods); where replacement costs of human resources are high (e.g. due to a tight labour market and other conditions); and employees have a high level of access to other power sources (e.g. collective power). Management is traditionally focused around a formal, calculating and dispassionate handling of human resources, while leadership – depending on the type of style chosen by the leader – may be more readily associated with a soft, developmental, participative and commitment-focused approach to managing people’s behaviour. The aim of the present section of this book is to introduce management functions and basic organizational management approaches, as well as to characterize briefly the most essential stages in the evolution of leadership thought.

Leadership – A Values-Work Perspective

Tartalomjegyzék


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.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/feher-leadership-a-values-work-perspective//

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