The Begley article studies “values as influence on leadership practices.” (2000) He indicates that social pressures have changed the nature of school administration and that value conflict has become characteristic of school leadership resulting in leaders encountering value conflict situations. Purpose The main purpose of this article is to report on the newer, more balanced view that has recently emerged regarding values as influences on leadership practices. This new view would combines notions of the personal value (manifested by individual) and the professional values of administration, with the collective values (manifested by groups, societies, and organizations). Main question The main problem, which the article attempts to solve, is to determine a current and valid assessment of the place of values in school administration. We are reminded by Begley that we must keep in the forefront the unique challenge of values research: that a great deal of the research on school leadership has been positivist and post positivist which means that much of the research, therefore, excludes the function of values. Context specifics are excluded, the very specifics that reveal the motivations of administrators.  Begley states that because “values resist empirical verification…[they] cannot be reliably or explicitly tracked.” (p. 242 Begley 2000)