Wolfang Lassl

From Values to Organizational Practice - the Contribution of the VSM to value-oriented leadership in the age of digitalization

New technologies create ambivalence. In these times of upheaval, values and ethics are needed as stabilizing forces and guides. Building on the VSM, this contribution explores some of the key organizational mechanisms that value-oriented leadership should focus on to ensure that it does not remain abstract but is actually reflected in the concrete actions and decisions of organizations. The VSM hereby reveals its particular strength: offering multi-faceted and detailed insights while preserving an overarching frame of reference. In addition to the organizational dimension of value-oriented leadership, this article derives from the VSM and the underlying Ashby’s Law an ethical imperative as well as guidelines for an ethical decision-making process.