David Robinson
Sergio Caredda
Robinson, D. A., Goleby, M., & Hosgood, N. (2006). Entrepreneurship as a Values and Leadership Paradigm. Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2007. http://epublications.bond.edu.au/business_pubs/10
Description:
The Value-Based Leadership Algorithm is an attempt to provide a framework for global leadership based on the Value Journey chart elaborated by Robinson in 1998, and integrating several different theories (from Spiral dynamics, thus the use of colours, to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, to Piaget and Egan).
The model proposed (Robinson and Harvey, 2008) integrates psycho-social elements of leadershipand organizational effectiveness, such as conditioning, power, duty, dependence, and ethics. As the Values of an organisation can be plotted on “identifiable values stations” (following the theory of the Values Journey), it is possible to follow the effectiveness of the different Leadership Styles based on the steps, and the ability of followers to adapt. As people move around the different “steps” illustrated by the colours, different Leadership styles might be more adaptable.
Although the authors do not specifically allocate one existing theory to each step, based on the description of their characteristics, it is possible to associate one Leadership theory to each of the steps:
- Power-Seeking becomes Dictatorial Leadership style
- Safe-bonding becomes Charismatic Leadership style
- Duty-Compliance becomes Authoritarian Leadership style
- Success-Striving becomes Transactional Leadership style
- Harmonious becomes Servant Leadership style
- Integrative becomes Transformational Leadership style.
Note that this, however, is only a loose coupling (Goleby, 2018), that marks the idea of the VBLA as a holistic theory.
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