Essays on Toxic Leader

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Destructive leadership, or toxic leadership, is known to have a damaging effect on subordinate members of the armed forces. In the military, toxic leaders are those who engender low levels of confidence, torment, overwork, and micromanage their units, inflict undue stress, and repeatedly violate their soldiers’ trust (Elle, 2012; Reed, 2004). Toxic leadership tends to undermine discipline, morale, and motivation and has a highly divisive effect on unit cohesion. The presence of toxic leadership within the army has recently been confirmed by a survey indicated at least 20 percent of officers and NCOs have worked for a toxic leader ( ...

Negative Leadership Styles: Toxic Management

Introduction There are a number of leadership styles and approaches. Of these styles, some are very common but not the best approaches of leadership. Examples are Post-hoc Management, Micromanagement, Seagull Management, Mushroom Management, Kipper Management, and Toxic Management. Toxic Management is the most common of all these.

Toxic Management

Toxic management can be defined as a leadership approach where bosses bully or harass those working under them.

Toxic management is a management approach that has been commonly practiced in organizations. This approach is yields to a toxic work environment (Calow, 2009, p. 154).

The best way to spot a toxic leader is by looking around ...

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Toxic Leadership 4 Introduction 4 Research Purpose and Questions 5 Research purpose 5 Research questions 6 Literature Review 7 Characteristic and behavior of toxic leaders 8 Effects of toxic leadership 9 Can toxic leaders change? 10 Findings 10 Conclusions 11

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Abstract Toxic leadership in the society has been influential in setting bad precedent for organizations and groups of people. Toxic leaders are led by personal vendetta which seeks to enrich themselves at the expense of their followers. This has led to conflicts among employees as the behavior of ...

This is a study by Jean Lipman-blumen shedding more light on disastrous leadership. It offers a deep understanding of the corporate scandal as well as political folly. The author argues that, bad leaders are not the ones to blame but rather the subjects led since they are the one who put them into power and allow them to cling there. After analyzing the story of Adolf Hitler of Germany and Jeff Skillinngs of Enron, she makes the conclusion that the followers of the toxic leaders are the victims who gave way to misguided leadership. This book gives a deep understanding to anyone ...

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In this essay, I have chosen toxic leadership as the topic of my discussion. I have described toxic leadership that is prevalent in military profession in detail. I have also provided the symptoms of toxic leaders that are useful in identifying them. I have described how toxic leaders affect the military personnel and organizational culture. In the end, I have emphasized on the importance of getting rid of such leaders. According to Ron Kaufman, “The culture of an organization is like a river. It can be fluid, strong and consistent, serving as lubricant while ...