Value Based Leadership Paradigm Publisher



Shatalebi B¹ ; Yarmohammadian MH² Show Affiliations
Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Published:2011

Abstract

Organization is a place of gathering people who work together under a coordinate discipline in order to realize organizational purpose. But there is a key problem in organizational behaviour and it is the fact that member of organization, who form work group, are heterogeneous in many case and harmonizing them causes a problem that is called employees diversity puzzle. Organizational leaders face this problem or puzzle that they must stabilize a balance between purpose, attitude, values, speech, behaviour and adverse behaviours of workgroups.today it seems that organizational employees never withdraw from cultural values and their situations and don't abandon their priorities as result the task of organizational leader in such case is to stabilize a harmonic positive and strong organizational culture and also to respond to employees personal needs. Value-based leadership is a new approach in leadership that takes in to account both aspects of harmonizing employees and stabilizing common values and attending to major personal differences simultaneously. Value-based leadership is a leadership style in that leader-follower relationship is formed around axial values. in this leadership style, in stead of focusing on purposes of supervision, exact control and emphasis on hierarchy, leadership concentrates on values and insights and in it, planning, budgeting, communications, performance, Measurement and act are formed around axis of values. The personal article aims to identify components and dimensions of this leadership style and to introduce an adequate model for using this style in universities. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.