Problematic Managers: Toxic Behavior’s Effect on the Worker
Our blog is about toxic behavior in the workplace and how it affects workers and corporations alike. In our post, we will define, describe, and examine how toxic behavior is conducted in the workplace, a managers role in the dissemination of this behavior, and ultimately, what managers and workers can do to rectify this behavior.
Fedorova, A. (2019). Dealing with Toxic Leadership: Empirically Defining and Evaluating Destructive Labour Relations. Proceedings of the European Conference on Management, Leadership & Governance, 133–140. https://doi.org/10.34190/MLG.19.058
This article defines toxic leadership as social pollution and the decaying force it plays between manager and subordinate. Fedorova details the negative impacts this necrosis plays in a firms’ economic, social, and organizational efficiently, and the destruction of the employees’ personal life. This paper focuses on building a systemic understanding of the formation, as well as the effects of such a negative relationship by implementing both qualitative and quantitative research data.
This article will help across all aspects of our final product. The thesis of this paper goes to establish the main point of our blog entry: the effects of toxic leadership on the worker and companies triple bottom line. This paper will help to establish our stance in our intro, provide substance for the body, and reinforce our conclusions.
Goldman, A. (2008). Company on the Couch: Unveiling Toxic Behavior in Dysfunctional Organizations. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(3), 226–238. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492608318157
In this article, “Company on the Couch: Unveiling Toxic Behavior in Dysfunctional Organizations,” the author Alan Goldman address of the creation of toxic management due to a failure to identify the problems early on. By having an ineffective management system, toxicity in teams spreads and create a toxic management systems. This article features two case studies in which the author details the events that lead to the toxic behavior, how the managers failed to recognize it, and the efforts made after the behavior was recognized in the attempt to correct the previous errors. This article is useful to our blog topic because it dictates how corporations can have toxic behavior and ineffectual managers can ignore or not realize the negative behavior.
Koropets, O. (2019). Toxic Workplace: Problem Description and Search for Management Solutions. Proceedings of the European Conference on Management, Leadership & Governance, 505–508. https://doi.org/10.34190/MLG.19.060
Olga Koropets, author of “Toxic Workplace: Problem Description and Search for Management Solutions.” conducts a study to see how toxic behavior has a negative impact on productivity and psychological well-being of employees. A sample of 70 women and 60 men aged 23 to 55, with work experience of 1-35 years were surveyed for the study. A questionnaire was given to determine the degree certain violations in the workplace: “Unfairness”, “Immoral and illegal activities”, “Abusive bosses and poisonous coworkers”, “Physical danger”, “Just plain annoying”. This study and its description offered clear definitions of toxic practices and quantifiable evidence of how these practices affect employees’ psychological well-being.
Sher, R. (2014). Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership. Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, 2-3, Retrieved from
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Robert Sher, author of “Where’s There No Margin for Toxic Leadership” details how toxic leadership is a menace to any firm. To explain this, he used an example of when a CEO of a multimillion dollar manufacturing company stepped down so that he could focus on the finance and operations. The CEO then hired a head of sales, and the company saw stagnant sales of more than two years. After the Sales Manager was fired, the CEO hear how the sales team felt micromanaged. Under proper management, the company was able to see rapid growth once more. This article shows how toxic leadership has a negative impact on not only the employees, but the company as a whole. This directly correlates to our topic as it shows a real world example of how detrimental this type of behavior is within the workplace.
Singh, Nivedita, et al. “Toxic Leadership: The Most Menacing Form of Leadership.” IntechOpen, IntechOpen, 5 Nov. 2018, www.intechopen.com/books/dark-sides-of-organizational-behavior-and-leadership/toxic-leadership-the-most-menacing-form-of-leadership.
Nivedita Singh author of “Toxic Leadership: The Most Menacing Form of Leadership”, describes in detail the intricacies of how toxic leadership can negatively affect the organization as a whole. Not only does this toxic leadership affect the company and their profit margins but it also has a negative impact on employee well being. Toxic leadership can happen in a multitude of ways and it even affects the leader themselves. Sometimes toxic leadership isn’t easily identified, some workers could believe the manager is charismatic while others may believe them to be toxic, this article goes into detail about how this affects the workplace and organizational behavior as a whole.
Goldman, A. (2008). Company on the Couch: Unveiling Toxic Behavior in Dysfunctional Organizations. Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(3), 226–238. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492608318157
In this article, “Company on the Couch: Unveiling Toxic Behavior in Dysfunctional Organizations,” the author Alan Goldman addresses the creation of toxic management due to a failure to identify the problems early on. By having an ineffective management system, toxicity in teams spreads and creates toxic management systems. This article features two case studies in which the author details the events that lead to the toxic behavior, how the managers failed to recognize it, and the efforts made after the behavior was recognized in the attempt to correct the previous errors. This article is useful to our blog topic because it dictates how corporations can have toxic behavior and ineffectual managers can ignore or not realize the negative behavior.
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