What is Value-Based Leadership

Organizational change is rarely easy. Many times, leaders and managers must deal with personality conflicts among workers, as well as tensions resulting from workers balancing work and home responsibilities. This chapter provides scholars and practitioners with an understanding of the influences value-based leadership and personality types play in driving leaders and behavior during organizational change. Further, the behaviors of stress and inaction of individuals and groups brought on by balancing work and home responsibilities during organizational change present readers with a deeper analysis and understanding of human behavior. Value-based leadership, perception, personality, and behavioral theories are discussed and examined through scenario activities designed for corporate, education, government, and non-profit sectors. Learning activity scenarios offer readers exercises in the decision-making process. Referencing personality strengths and areas of stress, readers have opportunities to engage in thoughtfully driven value-based solutions when managing an organizational change.