Understanding Values Work : Institutional Perspectives in Organizations and Leadership.

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Main Author: Askeland, Harald.
Other Authors: Espedal, Gry., Jelstad Løvaas, Beate., Sirris, Stephen.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Understanding Values Work in Organisations and Leadership -- Purpose and Focus of the Book -- Introducing Values and Values Work -- Values in Organisations and Leadership -- Overview of Chapters in the Book -- The What of Understanding Values Work-A Theoretical Framework -- Exploring Who Is Doing Values Work-The Actors -- Understanding How to Do Values Work -- References -- I Understanding Values, Values Work and Complex Institutional Contexts -- 2 Values-Reviewing the Construct and Drawing Implications for Values Work in Organisation and Leadership -- Introduction -- Basic Distinctions and Trajectory of the Values' Concept -- Values in Streams of Institutional Theory -- Rounding Out the Concept of Values -- Implications for Values Work in Organisation and Leadership -- References -- 3 What Is Values Work? A Review of Values Work in Organisations -- Research on Values Work: An Introduction -- A Literature Review of Values Work in Organisations -- Defining Values Work -- The Institutional Context of Studies on Values Work -- Values Work in Investigating Institutional Processes -- Values Work Enhancing Normative Dimensions of Work -- Outcomes of Studies on Values Work -- Future Research on Values Work -- References -- 4 Institutional Complexity Challenging Values and Identities in Scandinavian Welfare Organisations -- Introduction -- Institutional Complexity -- The Context of the Scandinavian Welfare State -- Introducing a Market Logic -- Changes Affecting Public Values -- The Welfare Mix -- Coexisting Logics in Welfare Organisations -- The Sectors as Ideal Types -- Hybrid Civic Organisations and Values -- Overall Discussion -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- II Who Performs Values Work?. 
505 8 |a 5 Institutional Leadership-The Historical Case Study of a Religious Organisation -- Institutional Leadership as Institutional Work -- The Jesuits -- Ordering Individual Values -- Ordering the Corpus' Values -- Ordering a Poor Way of Life -- Leading a 'Poor' Corpus -- Conclusion -- Published Sources -- References -- 6 'Good Leaders Do the Dirty Work': Implicit Leadership Theory at the Multicultural Workplace -- Introduction -- A Critical Review of the Comparative Paradigm of Cultural Universals -- Exploring Implicit Ideas of Leadership at the Multicultural Workplace -- Research Design and Methods -- Implicit Ideas of Leadership at the Multicultural Workplace -- Implicit Ideas of Good and Bad Leadership in the Nursing Homes -- Contextual Factors and Individual Experiences as Sources of Implicit Ideas of Leadership -- Negotiating Leadership in the Nursing Homes -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 7 Foxes and Lions: How Institutional Leaders Keep Organisational Integrity and Introduce Change -- Introduction -- Institutional Leadership: Linking Field, Organisation and Actor Levels -- Institutional Pluralism and Public Administration -- The Institutional Embodiment of Purpose: Strategies for (Not) Building Integrity While (Not) Introducing Change -- Habitual and Projective Agency -- Empirical Illustrations -- Conclusions -- References -- 8 Institutional Leadership: Maintaining and Developing the 'Good' Organisation -- Introduction -- Relating Values Work and Institutional Leadership -- Research Setting -- Mission, Character and the Embodiment of Values -- Conceiving of the Good Home: Continuity and Development in Institutionalising the Mission -- Leaders' Contribution to Institutionalising 'the Common Good': Value Processes as Conveying of Character and the Role of the Organisation. 
505 8 |a Conceiving of and Performing 'Good Practice': Embodying Values in Organisational Structure and Practice -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 9 Women's Path to Leadership Through Values Work in a Context of Conflict and Violence -- Introduction -- A Context of Conflict and Violence -- Women Leadership, Values and Values Work -- Discovering Paths to Leadership Through Narrative Life Stories -- Basombana's Story -- Kusinza's Story -- Individual and Collective Values on Education of Girls -- Values Work Within the Framework of Religious Civil Society Organisations -- The Fight for Women's Rights -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- III How Is Values Work Performed? -- 10 Catching Values in Flight: A Process Perspective on Researching Values in Organisations -- Introduction -- Process Studies and Values Work -- Process Studies' Role in Enhancing the Temporal and Relational Aspects of Organisational Work -- Values as Part of Institutionalising Processes -- Investigating Values Informed by Process Studies-A Strong-Process Perspective -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 11 Values as Fixed and Fluid: Negotiating the Elasticity of Core Values -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives on Core Values as Fixed and Fluid -- Research Context and Methods -- Research Setting and the Values Discourse -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Case Description and Findings -- Framing -- Targeting -- Confronting -- Identifying -- Negotiating -- Discussion -- Capturing the Fixed and Fluid Nature of Values -- The Elasticity of Values -- The Shortcomings of Core Values -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 12 Work on Values When Shaping Public Institutions: "What's Trust Got to Do with It?"-Experiences from Scandinavia -- Introduction -- The Value of Trust in Public Institutions -- The Context: Models and Reforms on Trust in Scandinavia. 
505 8 |a Theoretical Perspectives: Values Work and Institutional Logic -- Research Setting and Method -- Research Setting -- Textual Analysis -- Findings -- Values Work Mechanisms -- Pockets of Concern and Competing Understandings of Root Causes -- Practising Trust, Possibilities and Obstacles -- Circulating Trust -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 The Art of Making Sense of Volunteering -- Introduction -- Agents, Values and Identity -- The Volunteers -- Not Paid -- Engagement -- Voluntary -- For the Benefit of the Other -- So, Why Not Money? -- The Rewards of Unpaid Work -- Discussion -- References -- 14 The Value of Group Reflection -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework and Previous Research -- Identity -- Self-Awareness in Identity Processes -- Supervision -- Method -- Description of the Intervention -- Data Analysis -- Ethical Considerations and Limitations of the Study -- Findings -- Moving Inward -- Moving Forward -- Discussion -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index. 
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