August 16, 2023

Describe three toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit, including a specific example of each toxic leadership behavior.

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 be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. An originality report is provided when you submit your task that can be used as a guide.

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.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

Note: As a part of completing your future Master of Science in Management and Leadership (MSML) capstone course, you will be required at that time to create an annotated bibliography that will include 2–5 scholarly sources relating to the subject matter of each previous course, including this one. You may begin to collect these scholarly sources now from each course, including this one, as you work through the program in preparation for your capstone course.

Write a paper (suggested length of 6–10 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.

Note: A scholarly source is defined as an academic journal article from a peer-reviewed source, an editor-reviewed article or book, or an article from a respected industry publication, government organization, educational institution, or industry leader. Reputable sources can also be found in the WGU library or within the course.

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.

Requirements: 6-10 pages