Values-Based Leadership and the Organizational Parent System

Abstract

The author describes how an organizational Parent (ego state) system (OPS) can be used as an integrated steering system by which leaders can improve the effectiveness of their leadership style. This values-based leadership contributes to the development of a safe working environment, the well-being of employees, a positive reputation for the company, and a better world.

Keywords:

• Reputation
• values-based leadership
• integrated Parent ego state system
• positive parenting
• cybernetic program
• compliance
• commitment
• impulse control
• risk control
• reputation steering system

Disclosure Statement

The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Funding

The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Notes on contributors

Maarten Kouwenhoven

Maarten Kouwenhoven, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), psychologist, and director of Kouwenhovenopleidingen.nl. He has written more than 40 publications on transactional analysis since 1974. He can be reached at Prins Bernhardlaan 11, 3851 XL Ermelo, Netherlands; email: [email protected]. This article is a revised version of Chapter 7 from Reputatiekunde: De kern van een waardevolle organisatie [The science of reputation: The core of a valuable organization] by the author and published in 2017 by Reputatie Academie Nederland, Ermelo, Netherlands.