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Toxic Organizational Cultures and Leadership
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Toxic Organizational Cultures and Leadership

by Susan Hetrick
March 2023
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
278 pages
7h 54m
English
Routledge
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5 Toxic Leadership

DOI: 10.4324/9781003330387-8

5.1 Introduction and Context

The culture of the organization plays a crucial role in determining what and whether dysfunctional behaviours are tolerated or not. Leadership1 - and the position of power - is influential in demonstrating the way to get things done, and how people are treated and motivated. Leaders act as ‘role models’ in defining the way to behave towards others. Individuals will look up to the leader and mirror their actions and behaviours as the way to be promoted. Leaders set the expectations of how to behave in an organization.

When an organization wants to change or transform its business to become, for example, ‘innovative’, then it will typically hire a new CEO. Too often ...

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ISBN: 9781000847468