Explicating Values as the Epicentre of Public Sector Leadership for New Times (Nanschild)

Nanschild, D. 2008. Explicating Values as the Epicentre of Public Sector Leadership for New Times: Putting the ‘V’ Factor back into the Australian Public Service, Values Framework. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 8 (6),... More

Nanschild, D. 2008. Explicating Values as the Epicentre of Public Sector Leadership for New Times: Putting the ‘V’ Factor back into the Australian Public Service, Values Framework. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 8 (6), pp. 131 - 139. This paper reports on Nanschild’s PhD research which highlights the importance of placing values at the epicentre of ‘working with’ leadership practices. Research literature suggests that individuals are happier and more productive when their values strongly align with those of their organisation and when the aligned values espoused by their organisation are lived. Senior executives in the Australian Public Service were the subjects of this study and the Hall-Tonna Values Framework was chosen as the research instrument. The study found that research subjects moved from an implicit values (‘values silent’) or unaligned values position to values-led leadership practice during the course of this study. They found Less