Week 5 - Destructive Leadership Flashcards
definition
Excessive use of power, control, or influence: Destructive leaders are authoritarian and oppressive; they exercise almost complete control over others and attempt to make others obedient to their wishes.
Has a selfish quality: It focuses only on the leader’s goals and objectives rather than on the common goals of both leaders and followers, or the goals of the organization.
The Dark Triad
Narcissism: self importance, grandiosity, perceived superiority, entitlement
Machiavellianism: strategic, exploitive and deceit
Psychopathy: impulsive, emotionally cold, callousness, cynicism
The Light Triad
Kantianism: treat people as ends in themselves not as means
Humanism: value dignity and worth of each person
Faith in humanity: belief in the fundamental goodness of people
Conformers
They conform because they lack a clearly defined self-concept and fear what will happen if they do not follow. Essentially characterized by unmet basic needs, negative self-evaluations, and immaturity.
Colluders
Comply in the hopes of getting something out of it for themselves. Basically ambitious and selfish.
Conductive environments
Instability
Easier to assert power and make unilateral decisions
Perceived threat
Needs to be perceived giving up of agency by followers
Absence of checks, balances, institutionalisation
Hofstede’s Dimensions of Organizational Culture
Organizational effectiveness: Means vs goals: risk?
Customer orientation: Internal vs external: ethics and honest vs customer needs
Control: Easy going vs strict: fluid structure vs cst conscious
Focus: Local vs professional
Approachability: Open vs closed
Philosophy: Employee vs work
How to eliminate destructive leadership
Be a whistleblower: Disrupt destructive leadership by speaking out. This requires courage and fortitude.
Build culture on staff development: Staff development helps address the problem of destructive leadership because it trains and builds individuals to be better leaders.
