Researching Values

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.

• 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.- 13 Participant validation—A strategy to strengthen the trustworthiness of your study and address ethical concerns.- 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.