When Leadership Hurts: The Reality of Poor Leadership on All Employees

When Leadership Hurts: The Reality of Poor Leadership on All Employees

Nikitia V. Powell | 2019

Abstract

Leadership can leave a lasting impression upon the heart of an organization: it employees. When individuals are selected to serve in a leadership role produce poor leadership qualities, it results in pain for the employees under said leadership, the leader performing in such a manner, and the organization as a whole. The purpose of this manuscript is to explore the effects of poor leadership on everyone in the organization, what it poor leadership looks like with regards to the organization’s cultural design, and examines the ways and responsibility organizations have to aid the development of its leaders to become a the type of leader who will represent the organization and lead its human capital. This manuscript also examines what leads others to desire to follow a poor leader verses rebelling against such a person and how a poor leader can begin to reform him or herself to become a better leader and what the journey toward becoming a good leader looks like. When poor leadership is address, the leader only has two choices: Stay the same and keep displaying poor leadership or Seek to become a good leader who can handle representing the organization and leading its most precious component–its employees! The choice is ultimately resting on the shoulders of the individual. May he or she choose well.