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In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People

Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates ...And Other Difficult People: Using Emotional Intelligence to Survive and Prosper

You're Not the Boss of Me: Empowerment Strategies for an Imperfect Workplace

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Toxic Leadership - How To Spot It And How To Avoid It

"Toxic leadership as a concept was coined by Marcia Lynn Whicker, in her book: "Toxic Leaders: When Organizations Go Bad" [New York: Doubleday, 1996. This phrase is linked with a number of dysfunctional leadership styles."

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Engage the employee with supportive relationships

"Recent publicity on workplace bullying, and studies conducted by sociologist Tim Hallet on the negative impact of gossip on workplace camaraderie, suggest organisations need to be wary of the detrimental effects of dysfunctional employee relations on business performance."

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Power Plus Incompetence Equals a Mean Boss

"So why are workplace tyrants so common? What's the psychological dynamic underlying such dysfunction at the top? It's not simply the power; there are many powerful bosses who are good and decent—or at least tolerable. Power corrupts only some—but which ones and why? Two psychologists recently decided to explore one possible explanation: perhaps it is power, but only power mixed with incompetence, that leads to aggression and abuse."

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Toxic leader - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"A toxic leader is someone who has responsibility over a group of people or an organization, and who abuses the leader-follower relationship by leaving the group or organization in a worse-off condition than when s/he first found them. The phrase was coined by Marcia Whicker in 1996 and is linked with a number of dysfunctional leadership styles."

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HOW TO BE A BAD BOSS

Executive coach Paul Lemberg is a pretty upbeat guy, but he's often frustrated by how often well-meaning bosses put obstacles in front of their employees and create dysfunctional organizations. "Most discussions of management and leadership talk about what to do to help people be their best," he notes, "but they don't talk about why executives and entrepreneurs routinely do the opposite."

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I'm A Bad Boss? Blame My Dad

"More execs are studying their family pasts to root out workplace dysfunction."

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Characteristics of Dysfunctional Workplaces

A useful list of characteristics of workplaces that foster bullies that also serves as a good checklist for people to use when evaluating their current work environment as well as bosses.

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