Leadership
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Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of leadership.!
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Running Head: Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of leadership.
Leadership Sibo Zhang May 24th, 2013 Applying Leadership Principles (SPRING 13-B-ORG300-11)
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Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of leadership.!
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Definition of Leadership Leadership can be defined as a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task. (As cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership). As we all know, as a leader, you have to know clearly who you are, what you know and what you can do to contribute to your team. However, there are also some negative leadership behavior which leads the team away from achieving their goals, such as unethical boss, unfair boss and disorganized boss.
Unethical Leadership
Unethical leadership behavior involves acts which are illegal, or morally inappropriate to larger society (Jones 1991). There are variety of unethical leader acts such as abusive supervision( Tepper, 2000), supervisor undermining (Duffy et al., 2002), toxic leadership (Frost, 2004) and tyrannical leadership (Ashforth, 1994). Unethical leaders are normally oppressive, abusive, manipulative and calculatingly undermining (Tepper, 2007). For example, if his/her employees did something wrong or did not actually follow his/her instruction, an unethical leader would start to punish them instead of leading them to the right track. Also, scholars estimate unethical leader behavior costs U.S. corporations billions of dollars a year due to increased absenteeism, health care costs, lost productivity and costs came along with claims (Detert et al., 2007; Tepper, Duffy, Henle, & Lambert, 2006). (As cited from http://secure.pdcnet.org/8525737F005803FF/file/ 8B2BC687D3875F6E8525779700452590/$FILE/
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Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of
Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of leadership.!
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Running Head: Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of leadership.
Leadership Sibo Zhang May 24th, 2013 Applying Leadership Principles (SPRING 13-B-ORG300-11)
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Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of leadership.!
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Definition of Leadership Leadership can be defined as a process of social influence in which a person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task. (As cited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership). As we all know, as a leader, you have to know clearly who you are, what you know and what you can do to contribute to your team. However, there are also some negative leadership behavior which leads the team away from achieving their goals, such as unethical boss, unfair boss and disorganized boss.
Unethical Leadership
Unethical leadership behavior involves acts which are illegal, or morally inappropriate to larger society (Jones 1991). There are variety of unethical leader acts such as abusive supervision( Tepper, 2000), supervisor undermining (Duffy et al., 2002), toxic leadership (Frost, 2004) and tyrannical leadership (Ashforth, 1994). Unethical leaders are normally oppressive, abusive, manipulative and calculatingly undermining (Tepper, 2007). For example, if his/her employees did something wrong or did not actually follow his/her instruction, an unethical leader would start to punish them instead of leading them to the right track. Also, scholars estimate unethical leader behavior costs U.S. corporations billions of dollars a year due to increased absenteeism, health care costs, lost productivity and costs came along with claims (Detert et al., 2007; Tepper, Duffy, Henle, & Lambert, 2006). (As cited from http://secure.pdcnet.org/8525737F005803FF/file/ 8B2BC687D3875F6E8525779700452590/$FILE/
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Negative leadership and recommendation to improve quality of