Researching Values: Methodological Approaches for Understanding Values Work in Organisations and Leadership

1 Researching values in leadership and organisation. Introduction

Part I: Methodological approaches to researching values

2 Values at work: Mapping the field through the lens of methodological approaches

3 Definitions as Initial and Final Point of Values Research? Searching for Mysteries in Research Projects about Values in Organisational and Leadership Studies

4 Intentionality and agency in values work research

5 Extending knowledge, improving practice, and refining values - research informed by the concept of phronesis

6 Dilemmas and Craftsmanship Practices: Strategies for Empirically Uncovering Values and Value Conflicts

Part II: Methods for collecting and analysing data

7 Research interview to investigate and co-create values

8 Observation and Shadowing: Two Methods to Research Values and Values Work in Organisations and Leadership

9 Thematic analysis: Making values emerge from texts

10 Identifying values through discourse analysis

11 A narrative approach to exploring values in organisations

12 Researchers’ role reflexivity when studying values work

Part III: Researching values through practical cases

14 The ’telos’ as a lens that illuminates values in practice

15 Applying a qualitative case study approach to study values in public-private partnerships

16 Values-Based Participatory Action Research in Development Ethics

Gry Espedal is Associate Professor at the master’s program in values-based leadership at VID Specialized University, Norway.

Beate Jelstad Løvaas is Associate Professor at the master´s program in values-based leadership at VID Specialized University, Norway.

Stephen Sirris is Professor of organisation and leadership at VID Specialized University, Norway.

Arild Wæraas is Professor of organisation and leadership at VID Specialized University, Norway.