READ THE ATTACHMENTS!!!
Introduction
For this task, you will write a paper evaluating how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals and organizational culture. Specifically, you will focus on leaders’ toxic leadership behaviors and the ethical consequences of those behaviors on leadership effectiveness. By demonstrating knowledge of toxic leadership behaviors and their ethical consequences, you can minimize adverse effects on performance and positively and proactively influence organizational culture to achieve individual and organizational goals.
Requirements
Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the University’s similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation.
You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.
Write a paper
(
suggested length of 15 pages)
in which you evaluate how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals by doing the following:
A. Describe
three toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit, including a specific example of each toxic leadership behavior.
Note: Where examples are asked for in this assessment, you may use hypothetical or real-world examples, as long as all identifying information is removed from any real-world examples used.
1. Explain how
each of the toxic leadership behaviors could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture, including
two specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
2. Explain how
each of the toxic leadership behaviors could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness, including
two specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior had ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
3. Support your responses for parts A, A1, and A2 with a scholarly source.
B. Recommend
three action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
1. Explain how these action items can prevent negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization, including specific examples of how
each action item would prevent the negative consequences (three total examples).
2. Explain how these action items improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
3. Support your responses to parts B, B1, and B2 with a scholarly source.
C. Analyze how power and influence are used to achieve organizational goals by doing the following:
1. Explain how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
2. Explain how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
3. Support your responses to parts C1 and C2 with a scholarly source.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
