Destructive leadership behaviour: A definition and conceptual model.

By Staale Einarsen, Merethe Schanke Aasland, A. Skogstad. 2007

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Supervisors' exceedingly difficult goals and abusive supervision: The mediating effects of hindrance stress, anger, and anxiety (2014, positive): “Similarly, destructive leadership, defined as leader behaviors that undermine or sabotage the organization’s effectiveness and/or the well-being of subordinates (Einarsen et al., 2007), is also related to abusive supervision but distinct.”
Transformational leadership, innovative work behavior, and employee well-being (2013, background): “Several researchers have underlined the importance of pro-subordinate behaviors and positive relationships between supervisors and subordinates (Einarsen et al. 2007; Gerstner and Day 1997; Humphrey et al. 2007; Ilies et al. 2007).”
Leader toxicity: An empirical investigation of toxic behavior and rhetoric (2010, background): “Einarsen et al. (2007) assert that destructive leadership harms not only the subordinate, but the organization as well.”
Paradoxes of authentic leadership: Leader identity struggles (2014, background): “Our study thus exhibits a somewhat darker side to authentic leadership (Einarsen et al., 2007; Ferris et al., 2007) that is less appealing and perhaps even anxiety-ridden as a source of identity work.”
Authentic Leadership: An Empirical Test of Its Antecedents, Consequences, and Mediating Mechanisms (2011, background): “…leadership by Avolio and colleagues (e.g., Avolio and Gardner 2005; Avolio et al. 2004, 2009) with regard to his/her employees (i.e., people leadership), but neglects organizational interests (cf. Einarsen et al. 2007) or does not show authentic leadership with regard to business leadership?”