Toxic Leadership and Conflict Resolution in Organizations

Abstract

Leaders are always considered as an example to follow by inspiring and motivating staff to follow them. However, there are other leaders whose behavior and style can be hazardous for the organization and its staff. This chapter draws attention to the toxic leaders and their variations in style by presenting different forms of toxic leaders as well as cases for each of them. Furthermore, an action plan to be taken in case of toxic leadership is also presented. The chapter also addresses the stages that organizational conflict might have and presents a classification of possible organizational conflicts as well as their reasons.