The Dark Side of Leadership: A Cross-Cultural Compendium

The corporate landscape is rife with instances of leaders who have left a trail of sinister outcomes.

In the last three decades, the research in leadership and organizational sciences has expanded in theoretical and typological breadth to include the dark side. These works have aimed at uncovering the complex interplay of personalities, power dynamics, and organizational cultures that can lead to destructive and unethical behaviors in the workplace. While there are volumes of literature on leadership, there is a dearth of research that integrates dark leadership and cross-cultural norms, perspectives, variances and interventions. The Dark Sides of Leadership: A Cross-Cultural Compendium is a collaborative and transdisciplinary venture that draws on the knowledge and experiences of organizational science practitioners and scholars across the globe to explore the contentious and evolving subject of dark leadership in the workplace. The primary consideration of this book is to explore dark-side leadership conceptualizations and manifestations across national contexts and provide insights into cultural peculiarities in traits, processes, and outcomes, as well as interventionist paradigms. Social psychologists agree that the dimensions of individual worldviews shrink or broaden based on socialization and Hofstede’s research demonstrates the fundamental role of national and organizational culture in shaping leadership behavior.

There is currently no book that comprehensively documents cross-cultural cases, perspectives, and research on dark leadership. The authors intend to bridge this gap with this transdisciplinary book.