![[PDF]](/pb-assets/Icons/adobe-pdf-icon-1498649896243.png){kind=icon}
Abstract
The study investigated destructive leadership behaviors (DLBs) and their influence on K-12 workplace attitudes (subordinate consideration for leaving their job, job satisfaction, and levels of stress). Quantitative survey method was used to gather data from experienced professional educators. Analyses of data show that the practice of DLB exists across all school leadership levels. Subordinate-directed behavior had the highest incidence of DLB, and principals and females experienced higher levels of DLB. DLB had negative correlation with job satisfaction, job stress, and consideration for leaving. Despite high levels of job satisfaction, respondents experienced feelings of stress and consideration for leaving their job.
References
Section:
|
Aasland, M. S., Skogstad, A., Notelaers, G., Nielsen, M. B., Einarsen, S. (2010). The prevalence of destructive leadership behaviour. British Journal of Management, 21, 438-452. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00672.x Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Aryee, S., Chen, Z. X., Sun, L. Y., Debrah, Y. A. (2007). Antecedents and outcomes of abusive supervision: Test of a trickle-down model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 191-201. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.92.1.191 Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Asbill, K. N. (1994). Invitational leadership: Teacher perceptions of inviting principal practices (Doctoral dissertation). New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA. Google Scholar | |
|
Ashforth, B. E. (1997). Petty tyranny in organizations: A preliminary examination of antecedents and consequences. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences/Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l’Administration, 14, 126-140. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Ashforth, B. E. (2003). Petty tyranny in organizations. In Porter, L. W., Angle, H. L., Allen, R. W. (Eds.), Organizational influence processes (2nd ed., Vol. 47, pp. 151-171). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. Google Scholar | |
|
Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5, 323-370. doi:10.1037//1089-2680.5.4.323 Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Blasé, J., Blasé, J. (2003). Breaking the silence: Overcoming the problem of principal mistreatment of teachers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Google Scholar | |
|
Bogler, R. (2001). The influence of leadership style on teacher job satisfaction. Educational Administration Quarterly, 37, 662-683. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | ISI | |
|
Brickman, P., Coates, D., Janoff-Bulman, R. (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 917-927. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Brown, M. E., Treviño, L. K. (2006). Ethical leadership: A review and future directions. Leadership Quarterly, 17, 595-616. doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2006.10.004 Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Buss, A. H. (1961). The psychology of aggression. New York, NY: Wiley. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Day, C., Gurr, D. (Eds.). (2014). Leading successfully: Stories from the field. London, England: Routledge. Google Scholar | |
|
Dienesch, R. M., Liden, R. X. (1986). Leader-member exchange model of leadership: A critique and further development. Academy of Management Review, 11, 618-634. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Duffy, M. K., Ganster, D. C., Pagon, M. (2002). Social undermining in the workplace. Academy of Management Journal, 45, 331-351. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Duffy, M. K., Ganster, D. C., Shaw, J. D., Johnson, J. L., Pagon, M. (2006). The social context of undermining behavior at work. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 101, 105-126. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2006.04.005 Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Einarsen, S., Aasland, M. S., Skogstad, A. (2007). Destructive leadership behaviour: A definition and conceptual model. Leadership Quarterly, 18, 207-216. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Einarsen, S., Hoel, H., Notelaers, G. (2009). Measuring exposure to bullying and harassment at work: Validity, factor structure and psychometric properties of the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised. Work & Stress, 23, 24-44. doi:10.1080/02678370902815673 Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Engle, E. M. (1997). Implicit theories, self-schemas, and leader-member exchange. Academy of Management Journal, 40, 980-1010. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
English, F. W. (2008). Anatomy of professional practice: Promising research perspectives on educational leadership. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Google Scholar | |
|
Fowler, F. C. (2014). Policy studies for educational leaders: An introduction (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson. Google Scholar | |
|
Fox, S., Spector, P. E., Miles, D. (2001). Counterproductive work behavior (CWB) in response to job stressors and organizational justice: Some mediator and moderator tests for autonomy and emotions. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 59, 291-309. doi:10.1006/jvbe.2001.1803 Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Getzels, J. W., Guba, E. G. (1957). Social behavior and the administrative process. School Review, 65, 423-441. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Goddard, R., Goddard, M. (2006). Beginning teacher burnout in Queensland Schools: Associations with serious intentions to leave. Australian Educational Researcher, 33(2), 61-76. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Gurr, D., Day, C. (2014). Thinking about leading schools. In Day, C., Gurr, D. (Eds.), Leading successfully: Stories from the field (pp. 194-208). London, England: Routledge. Google Scholar | |
|
Hauge, L. J., Skogstad, A., Einarsen, S. (2010). The relative impact of workplace bullying as a social stressor at work. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 51, 426-433. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2010.00813.x Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Heck, R. H., Hallinger, P. (2005). The study of educational leadership and management: Where does the field stand today? Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 33, 229-244. doi:10.1177/1741143205051055 Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | |
|
Hogan, R., Raskin, R., Fazzini, D. (1990). The dark side of charisma. In Clark, K. E., Clark, M. B. (Eds.), Measures of leadership (pp. 343-354). West Orange, NJ: Leadership Library of America. Google Scholar | |
|
Johnson, S. M., Kraft, M. A., Papay, J. P. (2012). How context matters in high-need schools: The effects of teachers’ working conditions on their professional satisfaction and their students’ achievement. Teachers College Record, 114(10), 1-39. Google Scholar | |
|
Kahneman, D., Tversky, A. (1984). Choices, values, and frames. American Psychologist, 39, 341-350. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Keashly, L. (1997). Emotional abuse in the workplace: Conceptual and empirical issues. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 1(1), 85-117. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Kyriacou, C., Hultgren, A., Stephens, P. (1999). Student teachers’ motivation to become a secondary school teacher in England and Norway. Teacher Development, 3, 373-381. Google Scholar | |
|
Leithwood, K., Duke, D. L. (1998). Mapping the conceptual terrain of leadership: A critical point of departure for cross-cultural studies. Peabody Journal of Education, 73(2), 31-50. doi:10.1207/s15327930pje7302_2 Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Lambert, L., Walker, D., Zimmerman, D. P., Cooper, J. E., Lambert, M. D., Gardner, M. E., Szabo, M. (2002). The constructivist leader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Google Scholar | |
|
Lumby, J., Crow, G., Pashiardis, P. (Eds.). (2008). International handbook on the preparation and development of school leaders. New York, NY: Routledge. Google Scholar | |
|
Lunenburg, F. C., Ornstein, A. C. (2014). Educational administration: Concepts and practices (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. Google Scholar | |
|
Lutgen-Sandvik, P., Tracy, S. J., Alberts, J. K. (2007). Burned by bullying in the American workplace: Prevalence, perception, degree and impact. Journal of Management Studies, 44, 837-862. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Murphy, F. M., Hunt, D., Wasonga, T. A. (2004). Cocreated leadership: Leadership from within. International Association of School Business Officials, 70(10), 20-21. Google Scholar | |
|
Nevin, A., Bradshaw, L., Cardelle-Elawar, M., Diaz-Greenberg, R. (2014). Becoming a teacher: A cross-cultural analysis of motivation and teacher identity formation. In Jenlink, P. M. (Ed.), Teacher identity and the struggle for recognition: Meeting the challenges of a diverse society (pp. 77-88). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Google Scholar | |
|
Padilla, A., Hogan, R., Kaiser, R. (2007). The toxic triangle: Destructive leaders, susceptible followers, and conducive environments. Leadership Quarterly, 18, 176-194. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Pithers, R. T. (1995). Teacher stress research: Problems and progress. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 65, 387-392. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Reed, G. E. (2010). Toxic leadership: Part deux. Military Review, (November-December), 58-64. Retrieved from http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20101231_art011.pdf Google Scholar | |
|
Schneider, K. T., Swan, S., Fitzgerald, L. F. (1997). Job-related and psychological effects of sexual harassment in the workplace: Empirical evidence from two organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 401-415. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Shernoff, E. S., Mehta, T. G., Atkins, M. S., Torf, R., Spencer, J. (2011). A qualitative study of the sources and impact of stress among urban teachers. School Mental Health, 3, 59-69. doi:10.1007/s12310-011-9051-z Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Skogstad, A., Einarsen, S., Torsheim, T., Aasland, M. S., Hetland, H. (2007). The destructiveness of laissez-faire leadership behavior. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12(1), 80-92. doi:10.1037/1076-8998.12.1.80 Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Smith, N. K., Larsen, J. T., Chartrand, T. L., Cacioppo, J. T., Katafiasz, H. A., Moran, K. E. (2006). Being bad isn’t always good: Affective context moderates the attention bias toward negative information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 210-220. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.90.2.210 Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Smylie, M. A. (1999). Teacher stress in a time of reform. In Vandenberghe, R., Huberman, A. M. (Eds.), Understanding and preventing teacher burnout: A sourcebook of international research and practice (pp. 59-84). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Spillane, J. P., Halverson, R., Diamond, J. B. (2004). Towards a theory of leadership practice: A distributed perspective. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 36, 3-34. doi:10.1080/0022027032000106726 Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Tepper, B. J. (2000). Consequences of abusive supervision. Academy of Management Journal, 43, 178-190. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
Tepper, B. J. (2007). Abusive supervision in work organizations: Review, synthesis, and research agenda. Journal of Management, 33, 261-289. doi:10.1177/0149206307300812 Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | ISI | |
|
Tepper, B. J., Duffy, M. K., Hoobler, J., Ensley, M. D. (2004). Moderators of the relationships between coworkers’ organizational citizenship behavior and fellow employees’ attitudes. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 455-465. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.89.3.455 Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Tepper, B. J., Henle, C. A., Lambert, L. S., Giacalone, R. A., Duffy, M. K. (2008). Abusive supervision and subordinates’ organization deviance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93, 721-732. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Thoroughgood, C. N., Tate, B. W., Sawyer, K. B., Jacobs, R. (2012). Bad to the bone: Empirically defining and measuring destructive leader behavior. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 19, 230-255. doi:10.1177/1548051811436327 Google Scholar | SAGE Journals | ISI | |
|
Toor, S.-R., Ogunlana, S. (2009). Ineffective leadership: Investigating the negative attributes of leaders and organizational neutralizers. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 16, 254-272. doi:10.1108/09699980910951663 Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Velsor, E. V., Leslie, J. B. (1995). Why executives derail: Perspectives across time and cultures. Academy of Management Executive, 9(4), 62-73. Google Scholar | |
|
Vinokur, A. D., Van Ryn, M. (1993). Social support and undermining in close relationships: Their independent effect on mental health in unemployed persons. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 350-359. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI | |
|
Wasonga, T. A. (2014). Social control for democratic community. Journal of School Leadership, 24, 1155-1176. Google Scholar | |
|
Wayne, S. J., Ferris, G. R. (1990). Influence tactics, affect, and exchange quality in supervisor-subordinate interactions: A laboratory experiment and field study. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 487-499. Google Scholar | Crossref | ISI | |
|
White, R. P., Devries, D. L. (1990). Making the wrong choice: Failure in the selection of senior-level managers. Leadership in Action, 10(1), 1-5. Google Scholar | |
|
Yagil, D. (2006). The relationship of abusive and supportive workplace supervision to employee burnout and upward influence tactics. Journal of Emotional Abuse, 6(1), 49-65. doi:10.1300/J135v06n01_03 Google Scholar | Crossref | |
|
Yamada, D. C. (2000). The phenomenon of “workplace bullying”and the need for status-blind hostile work environment protection. Georgetown Law Journal, 88, 475-536. Google Scholar | ISI | |
|
Zellars, K. L., Tepper, B. J., Duffy, M. K. (2002). Abusive supervision and subordinates’ organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 1068-1076. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline | ISI |
