Leading Diverse Teams: A Personal Experience (Part Two)

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Characteristics Result In Toxic Leadership
For an organization to have an efficient leadership, leaders ought to ensure their philosophy is congruent with the company’s mission and vision. Inefficient leadership is brought about by toxic leadership that subsequently causes often causes stagnant innovation, interdepartmental conflict, employee dissatisfaction, low productivity and a high turnover rate (Kusy & Holloway, 2010). Toxic leadership occurs due to the following reasons. First, Lack of moral philosophy creates a ground where leaders fails to instill a guiding ethical core that can help in the decision making and strategy formulation process within the organization. Second, element of autocracy also triggers toxic leadership as the followers opinions and contribution are not put into consideration (Kusy & Holloway, 2010). In this case, leaders dominate all functions thus subjecting the followers as minions and lesser beings. Finally, unrealistic expectations courses bad leadership as leaders tend to set objectives and goals that are unfair and unachievable, the followers end up struggling with unfeasible goals, and get demoralized (Kusy & Holloway, 2010).
Possible Repercussions of Toxic Leadership
Lack of moral philosophy usually leads to the deterioration of values such as ...