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.