Overcoming Bad Leadership in Organizations

Derek Lusk is Head of Executive Assessment at AIIR Consulting, where he helps Fortune 500 organizations with succession planning, high-potential identification, and talent analytics. He is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and frequent speaker on a variety of topics ranging from C-suite leadership to organizational resilience and politics. He is a member of the Society for Consulting Psychology (SCP), Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and on the board of the SIOP Professional Practice Series. He teaches at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Theodore L. Hayes is a personnel research psychologist near Washington, DC. Hayes has held research and consulting positions in the private and public sectors, and his areas of expertise include leadership assessment and feedback, employee engagement, selection, and organizational research methodology. The author of book chapters and over 25 peer-reviewed articles, Hayes is also an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University. He serves as an Associate Editor of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.

1. Introduction: Balancing Effective Leadership Against the Dark Side of Leaders
Ted Hayes and Derek Lusk
SECTION 1. INTO THE DARKNESS
2. Dark Leadership and the Fate of Organizations
Robert Hogan and Ryne A. Sherman
3. How to Define and Measure the Dark Side in Business
Bradley J. Brummel and Seth A. Osborn
4. Bright and Dark Side of Personality: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Personality Disorders
Adrian Furnham
5. HEXACO Personality: The future of Dark Side Research?
Beth A. Visser and Liam Doyle
6. The Dark and Destructive Side of Leadership: A Behavioral Perspective
Stale Valvatne Einarsen and Thomas Hol Fosse
7. From Freud to a Modern Theory of Dark Side Leadership
Derek Lusk
SECTION 2. WHY IT MATTERS: THE CONSEQUENCES OF DARK LEADERSHIP
8. The Dark Side and Leader Derailment
Jean Brittain Leslie
9. Authoritarianism: Understanding the Followers of the Dark Side
P.D. Harms and Karen Landay
10. Gender and the Dark Side of Leadership
Asia A. Eaton and Barbara Nevicka
11. Faultlines, Failure, and Fracture: The Dark Side of Team Dynamics
Dave Winsborough and Reece Akhtar
12. How Bad Leaders Impact Organizational Effectiveness
Ricky W. Griffin, Andrew A. Hanna, Troy A. Smith, and Bradley L. Kirkman
13. How to Mitigate Destructive Leadership-Human Resources-Practices that Mitigate Dark Triad Leaders' Destructive Tendencies
Birgit Schyns, Iris K. Gauglitz, Barbara Wisse, and Astrid Schütz
SECTION 3: OVERCOMING BAD LEADERSHIP IN THE WORKPLACE
14. Assessing the Dark Side: Making Informed Decisions Throughout the Leadership Lifecycle
Christopher T. Rotolo and David W. Bracken
15. Taming the Dark Side and Bringing Out the Light: Identifying and Developing High Potential Leaders
Robert E. Lewis and Julia Bayless
16. Getting Back on Course: A Four-Step Method for Behavior Change for Leader Derailment
Jonathan Kirschner and Justin P. Zamora
17. A Six Step Solution to Overcoming Bad Leadership: Scientific-Based Leadership Development Training
Denise L. Reyes
SECTION 4: THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF THE DARK SIDE
18. Leadership and Dark-Side Derailers The Risks and Rewards of Extreme Personalities
Robert B. Kaiser
19. Fearless Dominance-the Upside of Psychopathy?
Hanna Aileen Genau and Gerhard Blickle