Negative Leadership

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Leadership misbehavior can take place in many different forms. When discussing leadership misbehavior it is important to outline which forms you are talking about. In this essay I will be writing about generalized harassment by leadership. Generalized harassment can take many forms, such as workload overage, goal setting beyond reasonable expectations, and inter organizational politics. Who is normally affected? Most commonly you will see a person in a position of leadership harass a subordinate employee. The harassment can have many emotional components that motivate the leadership to harass an employee. Despite the existence of ethical policies and procedures and an emphasis on integrity, a workplace may still be characterized by unethical work behaviors due to the impact of human emotion. Even with all the rational areas

Accounted for, human behavior is influenced by emotions (Borchert, D. M. 2011). The emotions that could lead to work place harassment are guilt, shame, greed and contempt. Though this is not a complete list I consider these to be the most impactful when it comes to a leader harassing a worker. So within Past emotions stem from situations that have already taken place whereas future-focused emotions stem from situations that may happen (Borchert, D. M. 2011). So how does this affect the workplace? The affect is stress in the work place. Stress is defined as a specific experience at work that associated with aggression, anxiety, fear, depression, anger, and other unpleasant emotional states that have “bad” outcomes. This is unfortunate because supervisors have a strong influence on their employees’ behaviors due to their physical and psychological proximity to employees and their ability to administer rew...

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