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LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 207-216Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2007.03.002
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leadership; destructive; abusive; tyrannical; derailed; disloyal; aggression; deviance
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This paper proposes a definition and a descriptive model of destructive leadership behaviour. Destructive leadership behaviour is defined as the systematic and repeated behaviour by a leader, supervisor or manager that violates the legitimate interest of the organisation by undermining and/or sabotaging the organisation's goals, tasks, resources, and effectiveness and/or the motivation, well-being or job satisfaction of his/her subordinates. Three categories of such destructive leadership are identified in the proposed model: tyrannical, derailed, and supportive-disloyal leadership behaviour. The model may provide a useful link between the field of leadership and research on bullying, counterproductive behaviour, and aggression at work. The model contributes to a more nuanced concept of destructive leadership showing how destructive leadership behaviours also may have constructive elements. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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