Poor leadership leads to employee disloyalty and lack of performance
By: Diego Becerra, Ghenwa Ramadan, Kevin Rautenberg, Kyle Larson, Tess Creasy
Project Explanation:
A company providing poor leadership towards their employees guarantees disloyalty and a lack of performance as a result. Our research is focused on poor leadership and supervision, how the basis of power is being misused through management, and how this leads to job satisfaction, employees’ loyalty to the team, and job satisfaction to drop.
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This source lists traits of management that can either significantly help or detrimentally hinder a company’s success. While much has been researched about working with good peers, this article specifically focuses on the benefits of good management. Effects of seeing positive boss traits in the workplace – such as clarity, efficiency, and respect – is more influential than seeing those same traits only in one’s peers. These ideas directly tie to overall influence on a company’s employees, how successful their work will be, and how collaborative they will be willing to be in each work environment.
Saqib, A., & Arif, M. (2017). Employee Silence as a Mediator in the Relationship between Toxic Leadership Behavior and Organizational Performance. Journal of Managerial Sciences, 11, 83–104.
This article mentions toxic leaderships and how that affects organizations by bullying, and abusive supervision etc. which then interferes with the performance of employees. An unhealthy relationship with your boss can have a bad effect on how well you work and your personal goals.
Mergen, A., & Ozbilgin, M. F. (2021). Understanding the Followers of Toxic Leaders: Toxic Illusio and Personal Uncertainty. International Journal of Management Reviews, 23(1), 45–63.
This source describes the toxic leaders within a workplace. It mentions how their followers form their leader into becoming toxic. The author explains this idea in support with Bourdieu’s concept of illusion. The author also explains how the processes of a toxic leader can get their followers to remain in their team.
Amina, A., Ul Hadi, N., Waheed, A., & Fayyaz, H. (2021). The Effect of Leader Mindfulness on Employee Job Performance: Investigating the Mediating and Moderating Role of Leader-Member Exchange and Organization Culture. Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 31(2), 137–163.
This article goes over a study the authors conducted through 230 clinical care providers working in different health care institutions in Pakistan. Their purpose of this research is to study the relationship between leader member exchange and employee performance. They have also theorized whether supportive and innovative culture ties into leader member exchange and employee performance.
Ronen, S., & Donia, M. B. L. (2020). Stifling My Fire: The Impact of Abusive Supervision on Employees’ Motivation and Ensuing Outcomes at Work. Revista de Psicología Del Trabajo y de Las Organizaciones, 36(3), 205–214. https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.wwu.edu/10.5093/jwop2020a20
We see in this article the outcome of an abusive leadership has a huge effect on how well employees perform. There is not a full understanding on why that is, there is research-based information on how the leader’s behavior has a huge impact on how well employees perform and their motivation is based on a positive workspace.