Values and leadership

When Values Backfire 1 Running head: LEADERSHIP, VALUES, AND HYPOCRISY ATTRIBUTION When Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution, and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization

Theory on charismatic leaders suggests that shared values play an important role in promoting employee effort and organizational performance. This article proposes a theoretical model to identify conditions under which charismatic leadership and values inadvertently give rise to employee disenchantment, despite the good intentions of leaders and followers. The model integrates findings from a q...

Commentary Congruent leadership: values in action

Clinical leadership is best understood if our knowledge and insights of it are based on a theoretical foundation or a paradigm specifically related to clinical leadership. This paper discusses why current leadership theory, particularly transformational leadership, is inadequate for helping nurses understand or develop clinical leadership capabilities. It also outlines the new theory of congrue...

Intra-organizational challenges of values-based leadership

Recent discourse on modernizing leadership has often placed strong emphasis on values and ethics. This article elaborates challenges in leadership of large organizations, most notably in regards to appraisals of values-based leadership (VBL). It is proposed that if challenges are not identified, it would lead to unintended consequences, such as insignificant value-statements, inappropriate use ...

Asian Leadership Wisdom: The Relevance of Kautilyan and Confucian Values for Leadership Development

This paper is on comparative leadership philosophy. It explores the ancient Asian wisdom for leadership development from the Kautilyan and Confucian perspectives. Every now and then, there is a need for us to look and re-look at ancient wisdoms to be applied effectively in the modern context. In this paper, the authors provide an inside-out leadership development approach. This has practical im...

Women as Leaders: Leadership Style Versus Leaders’ Values and Attitudes