Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Understanding values work in organisations and leadership

Part I. Understanding values, values work and complex institutional contexts

2. Values - reviewing the construct and drawing implications for values work in organisation and leadership

3. What is values work? A review of values work in organisations

4. Institutional complexity challenging values and identities in Scandinavian welfare organisations

Part II. Who performs values work?

5. Institutional leadership - the historical case study of a religious organisation

6. ‘Good leaders do the dirty work’ : implicit leadership theory at the multicultural workplace

7. Foxes and lions : how institutional leaders keep organisational integrity and introduce change

8. Institutional leadership : maintaining and developing the ‘good’ organisation

9. Women’s path to leadership through values work in a context of conflict and violence

Part III. How is values work performed?

10. Catching values in flight : a process perspective on researching values in organisations

11. Values as fixed and fluid: negotiating the elasticity of core values

12. Work on values when shaping public institutions : “what’s trust got to do with it?” - experiences from Scandinavia

13. The art of making sense of volunteering

14. The value of group reflection