Dark Side Leadership Style

The leadership is the essential aspect for a company to be competitive because it formulates the company’s strategy and manage the resources, such as employees, operations, and finances. [1] According to Hogan & Kaiser (2005, p171), leadership is usually defined in terms of the leader who are in charge of organizations and their teams with the needed skills to successfully negotiate the status hierarchy of a large bureaucratic organization. The leader who embedded its leadership on his team is the most valuable asset of the company. Innovation and learning are the most crucial aspects for achieving competitive organizational performance. Learning is a culture in an organization where employees consciously develop their capacity to create desired results and constantly learning to achieve the organization’s objectives ([2] Rayme, 2011). In fact, many leaders in organization ignore the leadership behavior which may guide organizations into a stagnation or decline situation. A business failure is the result of incapable or dysfunctional leadership. The effects of dark side leadership are the consequences that compromise the quality and diminish the organization’s main objectives. This paper begins by reviewing the origin of the …show more content…
Take an example for Hitler and Fidel Castro; they are great leaders for many people and also immoral dictators that responsible for many demolition and death. Their leadership appeared due to their dynamic personalities, support from loyal followers, and during the right moments of economic, politic, and social dysfunction that allowed they leadership rise. These three components together from the toxic triangle becomes the catastrophe and can take over the organization culture and resulting in negative outcomes (Padilla, Hogan & Kaiser,