ABSTRACT
Values-driven leadership stands as an instrument for development of companies which also makes the company more democratic and opens the firm to cosmopolitan business ethics. This chapter considers values-driven leadership as change management and illustrates values-driven management in practice with some concrete examples. Values-driven management aims at integration and cooperation and ensures the development toward new forms of thinking in open interaction with the environment, where it is recognized that action takes place in a space of complexity with many possible solutions, which together constitute a challenge to traditional economic approaches. Work on values-driven leadership was about making this type of management the foundation of a bottom-up process of the administration which could give employees and managers greater motivation and service readiness. Values-driven management was also introduced as an alternative to new public management, which had otherwise been a popular tool for the renewal of the public sector.
