Understanding Values Work : Institutional Perspectives in Organizations and Leadership / / edited by Harald Askeland, Gry Espedal, Beate Jelstad Løvaas, Stephen Sirris.

At the core of institutional theories, ‘values’ is a central term and figures in most definitions; however it remains understudied and under-explored. The editors of this open access book identify a resurgence of interest in the values-construct which underpins discussions of identity, ‘ethos’ and t...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 296 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding Values Work in Organisations and Leadership
  • Values – Reviewing the construct and drawing implications for values work in organisation and leadership
  • What is values work? A review of values work in organisations
  • Institutional Complexity Challenging Values and Identities in Scandinavian Welfare Organisations
  • Institutional leadership - the historical case study of a religious organisation
  • ‘Good leaders do the dirty work’: Implicit leadership theory at the multicultural workplace
  • Foxes and lions: How institutional leaders keep organizational integrity and introduce change
  • Institutional leadership: Maintaining and developing the ‘good’ organisation
  • Women’s Path to Leadership through Values Work in a Context of Conflict and Violence
  • Catching Values in Flight: A Process Perspective on Researching Values in Organisations
  • Values as Fixed and Fluid: Negotiating the Elasticity of Core Values
  • Work on Values When Shaping Public Institutions “What’s trust got to do with it?” – experiences from Scandinavia
  • The art of making sense of volunteering
  • The value of group reflection.