- Title
- Arsenic in the boardroom: strategies to deal with toxic leaders
- Creator
- Mey, Michelle
- Subject
- Bullying in the workplace
- Subject
- Psychology, Industrial
- Type
- text
- Type
- Lectures
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20945
- Identifier
- vital:29421
- Description
- Effective leaders are critical in building successful organisations, communities and nations. Whilst academia and business alike advocate positive organisational psychology and the development of positive leadership, the sad reality is that there is a growing global prevalence of toxic leadership, with research indicating that between 20% and 60% of leaders may be defined as toxic (Veldsman, 2016). While toxic leaders, who initially come across as charming, confident and persuasive, may be effective in achieving organisational objectives in the short term, the long-term consequences can be devastating to the organisational brand and reputation, as well as to the morale and psyche of its members. Even though toxic leaders and bullies are becoming increasingly prevalent in organisations there is a lack of empirical research on workplace bullying.
- Format
- 17 pages
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures 2018
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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