Description
Leadership is the most consequential force impacting the lives of billions of people around the world. In healthy organizations, leadership is a productive force that inspires cooperation and builds cultures that give people meaning and purpose in their lives. On the other hand, nearly everyone has experienced a bad boss and the detrimental effects of poor leadership.Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations brings together the foremost experts on the dark side of leadership to offer groundbreaking insights to leaders, talent management professionals, and psychologists. The goal is to confront reality head on, to shed the idea that leadership is always good, and in this space increase our understanding of the perils of dysfunctional leadership. With this knowledge, readers are well-positioned to improve their own leadership style, consult with organizations to ameliorate abusive and dysfunctional leadership, hold bad actors accountable, and unleash good leadership around the world.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Balancing Effective Leadership Against the Dark Side of LeadersTed Hayes and Derek LuskSECTION 1. INTO THE DARKNESS2. Dark Leadership and the Fate of OrganizationsRobert Hogan and Ryne A. Sherman3. How to Define and Measure the Dark Side in BusinessBradley J. Brummel and Seth A. Osborn4. Bright and Dark Side of Personality: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Personality DisordersAdrian Furnham5. HEXACO Personality: The future of Dark Side Research?Beth A. Visser and Liam Doyle6. The Dark and Destructive Side of Leadership: A Behavioral PerspectiveStale Valvatne Einarsen and Thomas Hol Fosse7. From Freud to a Modern Theory of Dark Side LeadershipDerek LuskSECTION 2. WHY IT MATTERS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF DARK LEADERSHIP8. The Dark Side and Leader DerailmentJean Brittain Leslie9. Authoritarianism: Understanding the Followers of the Dark SideP.D. Harms and Karen Landay10. Gender and the Dark Side of LeadershipAsia A. Eaton and Barbara Nevicka11. Faultlines, Failure, and Fracture: The Dark Side of Team DynamicsDave Winsborough and Reece Akhtar12. How Bad Leaders Impact Organizational EffectivenessRicky W. Griffin, Andrew A. Hanna, Troy A. Smith, and Bradley L. Kirkman13. How to Mitigate Destructive Leadership-Human Resources-Practices that Mitigate Dark Triad Leaders' Destructive TendenciesBirgit Schyns, Iris K. Gauglitz, Barbara Wisse, and Astrid SchützSECTION 3: OVERCOMING BAD LEADERSHIP IN THE WORKPLACE14. Assessing the Dark Side: Making Informed Decisions Throughout the Leadership LifecycleChristopher T. Rotolo and David W. Bracken15. Taming the Dark Side and Bringing Out the Light: Identifying and Developing High Potential LeadersRobert E. Lewis and Julia Bayless16. Getting Back on Course: A Four-Step Method for Behavior Change for Leader DerailmentJonathan Kirschner and Justin P. Zamora17. A Six Step Solution to Overcoming Bad Leadership: Scientific-Based Leadership Development TrainingDenise L. ReyesSECTION 4: THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF THE DARK SIDE18. Leadership and Dark-Side Derailers The Risks and Rewards of Extreme PersonalitiesRobert B. Kaiser19. Fearless Dominance-the Upside of Psychopathy?Hanna Aileen Genau and Gerhard Blickle
