Value-Based, Authentic and Positive Leadership
Leadership is more than a series of behaviors and actions. For many, the leadership process is highly emotional and personal and based on fundamental values such as integrity and caring for others
Value-Based Leadership
Workplace spirituality recognizes that people often have a meaningful inner life that influences their beliefs and actions. Such approaches integrate what some consider the essence of the human existence, the body, mind, heart and spirit, and the search for the meaning of life and interconnectedness with others.
Spirituality focuses on how leaders and followers tap into their basic values to transform organizations by creating a vision based on deeply held values related to making a difference, and implementing a caring and altruistic culture that supports that vision. Value-based and spiritual leaders develop their relationship with followers based on the values they share.
One such value that has particular importance to organizations is integrity. Others would be spiritual values, such as love, hope, humility and faith.
Although honesty and integrity are part of most conceptions of effective leadership, in the wake of business and political scandals, the call for integrity and ethics in leadership has become louder and the more focus of recent research.