Assignment Prompt & Instructions
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– ## Introduction.docx
– ## Task2InstructionalGuide.docx
– ## Rubric.docx
**## Introduction.docx**
Introduction
For this task, you will write a paper evaluating how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals and organizational culture. Specifically, you will focus on leaders’ toxic leadership behaviors and the ethical consequences of those behaviors on leadership effectiveness. By demonstrating knowledge of toxic leadership behaviors and their ethical consequences, you can minimize adverse effects on performance and positively and proactively influence organizational culture to achieve individual and organizational goals.
Requirements
Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the University’s similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation.
_You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course._
Write a paper
_(_
_**suggested length of 15 pages**)_ in which you evaluate how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals by doing the following:
A. Describe
**three** toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit, including a specific example of each toxic leadership behavior.
_Note: Where examples are asked for in this assessment, you may use hypothetical or real-world examples, as long as all identifying information is removed from any real-world examples used._
1. Explain how
_each_ of the toxic leadership behaviors could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture, including
**two** specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
2. Explain how
_each_ of the toxic leadership behaviors could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness, including
**two** specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior had ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
3. Support your responses for parts A, A1, and A2 with a scholarly source.
B. Recommend
**three** action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
1. Explain how these action items can prevent negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization, including specific examples of how
_each_ action item would prevent the negative consequences (three total examples).
2. Explain how these action items improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
3. Support your responses to parts B, B1, and B2 with a scholarly source.
C. Analyze how power and influence are used to achieve organizational goals by doing the following:
1. Explain how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
2. Explain how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
3. Support your responses to parts C1 and C2 with a scholarly source.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
**## Task2InstructionalGuide.docx**
## C203 Instructional Guide for Task 2
_In this task, you will examine toxic leadership behaviors and develop recommendations to prevent them. You will also analyze how leadership behaviors affect organizational culture and performance. This instructional guide will provide instructional guidance on each section of the task to help you navigate and successfully complete Task 2 for C203._
Please keep in mind a few tips, you can write in any format you like. There is NO sample paper, please discard that information if you see it somewhere. We allows students to write in any format you choose (i.e. MLA, APA, or CHI). Please refer to the Academic Formatting Guide to assist with formatting and setting up your paper correctly.
**Helpful Submission Tip(s) for Task 2:**
While not required, I strongly recommend that you format your paper following the rubric structure. Please label each section clearly with headings such as A, B1, B2, B3, etc.. This makes it much easier to align your responses directly with each rubric prompt.
Using this approach will also benefit you if the task is returned for revisions, as you (and the evaluator) can quickly locate the specific section that needs adjustment.
Additionally, I suggest using a ledger format (bullet points, clear subheadings, or tables as appropriate) to help organize your information within each section. This structure will make your paper more reader-friendly and ensure that all required elements are addressed clearly and efficiently.
Remember, the goal is to make your work as easy as possible to evaluate, while still maintaining professional formatting. You’ve got this!
## Section A: Toxic Leadership Behaviors
**A. Describe Three Toxic Leadership Behaviors:**
Select 3 toxic leadership behaviors. Provide one specific example for each behavior. Support your descriptions with one scholarly source (journal article, book, or credible resources).
**A1. Explaining Influence on Leadership Effectiveness and Organizational Culture:** Explain how each toxic behavior negatively impacts leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. Include two specific examples to illustrate these impacts. Use one scholarly source to support your explanation.
**A2. Ethical Consequences:**
Discuss the ethical consequences of each toxic leadership behavior. Provide two specific situations where ethical issues resulted from toxic leadership behaviors. Support your discussion with one scholarly source.
**Tip:** Use real or fictional examples that clearly demonstrate the ethical and organizational consequences of toxic leadership.
## Section B: Action Items to Prevent Toxic Leadership
**B. Recommend Three Action Items:**
List three practical steps an organization can take to prevent toxic leadership behaviors. Each recommendation should directly address the behaviors you described in Section A. Support your recommendations with one scholarly source.
**B2. Preventing Negative Consequences:**
Explain how each of the three action items will prevent the negative effects of toxic leadership behaviors. Provide one specific example for each action item. Support with one scholarly source.
**B3. Improving Leadership Effectiveness and Culture:**
Explain how the recommended action items will improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. Focus on improvement areas such as motivation, development, or innovation. Provide two opportunities for growth or improvement the organization has not yet utilized.
## Section C: Power and Influence in Leadership
**C1. Positive Leadership Behaviors:**
Explain how positive leadership behaviors help organizations achieve their goals. Tie this explanation to the action items you recommended in Section B. Support your explanation with one scholarly source.
**C2. How Toxic Behaviors Inhibit Organizational Goals:**
Analyze how toxic leadership behaviors prevent organizations from reaching their goals. Support your analysis with at least one scholarly source.
## References
· Include all sources cited throughout your paper.
· Follow APA formatting guidelines for all in-text citations and references.
· Please use the Academic Formatting Guide to assist with formatting.
**## Rubric.docx**
Rubric
**A:Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The submission identifies 3 toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit within an organization and logically describes each of those behaviors, including a specific example of each of the behaviors.
**A1:Influence of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how each of the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
**A2:Ethical Consequences of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior has ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
**A3:Toxic Leadership Behaviors Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts A, A1, and A2.
**B:Action Item Recommendations**
**Competent**
The recommendation identifies 3 relevant action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
**B1:Preventing Negative Consequences**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can prevent the negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization. The explanation includes a specific example of a potential negative consequence that each action item would prevent and logically describes how the action item would prevent that negative consequence.
**B2:Improving Motivation, Development, or Innovation**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
**B3:Action Items Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts B, B1, and B2.
**C1:Positive Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
**C2:Toxic Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
**C3:Achieving Organizational Goals Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts C1 and C2.
**D:** [**Sources**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/71484321)
**Competent**
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.
**E:** [**Professional Communication**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/27641407)
**Competent**
This submission includes satisfactory use of grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, and punctuation, which promote accurate interpretation and understanding.
**## Rubric.docx**
Rubric
**A:Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The submission identifies 3 toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit within an organization and logically describes each of those behaviors, including a specific example of each of the behaviors.
**A1:Influence of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how each of the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
**A2:Ethical Consequences of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior has ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
**A3:Toxic Leadership Behaviors Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts A, A1, and A2.
**B:Action Item Recommendations**
**Competent**
The recommendation identifies 3 relevant action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
**B1:Preventing Negative Consequences**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can prevent the negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization. The explanation includes a specific example of a potential negative consequence that each action item would prevent and logically describes how the action item would prevent that negative consequence.
**B2:Improving Motivation, Development, or Innovation**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
**B3:Action Items Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts B, B1, and B2.
**C1:Positive Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
**C2:Toxic Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
**C3:Achieving Organizational Goals Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts C1 and C2.
**D:** [**Sources**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/71484321)
**Competent**
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.
**E:** [**Professional Communication**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/27641407)
**Competent**
This submission includes satisfactory use of grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, and punctuation, which promote accurate interpretation and understanding.
**## Introduction.docx**
Introduction
For this task, you will write a paper evaluating how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals and organizational culture. Specifically, you will focus on leaders’ toxic leadership behaviors and the ethical consequences of those behaviors on leadership effectiveness. By demonstrating knowledge of toxic leadership behaviors and their ethical consequences, you can minimize adverse effects on performance and positively and proactively influence organizational culture to achieve individual and organizational goals.
Requirements
Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the University’s similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation.
_You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course._
Write a paper
_(_
_**suggested length of 15 pages**)_ in which you evaluate how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals by doing the following:
A. Describe
**three** toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit, including a specific example of each toxic leadership behavior.
_Note: Where examples are asked for in this assessment, you may use hypothetical or real-world examples, as long as all identifying information is removed from any real-world examples used._
1. Explain how
_each_ of the toxic leadership behaviors could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture, including
**two** specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
2. Explain how
_each_ of the toxic leadership behaviors could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness, including
**two** specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior had ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
3. Support your responses for parts A, A1, and A2 with a scholarly source.
B. Recommend
**three** action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
1. Explain how these action items can prevent negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization, including specific examples of how
_each_ action item would prevent the negative consequences (three total examples).
2. Explain how these action items improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
3. Support your responses to parts B, B1, and B2 with a scholarly source.
C. Analyze how power and influence are used to achieve organizational goals by doing the following:
1. Explain how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
2. Explain how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
3. Support your responses to parts C1 and C2 with a scholarly source.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
**## Task2InstructionalGuide.docx**
## C203 Instructional Guide for Task 2
_In this task, you will examine toxic leadership behaviors and develop recommendations to prevent them. You will also analyze how leadership behaviors affect organizational culture and performance. This instructional guide will provide instructional guidance on each section of the task to help you navigate and successfully complete Task 2 for C203._
Please keep in mind a few tips, you can write in any format you like. There is NO sample paper, please discard that information if you see it somewhere. We allows students to write in any format you choose (i.e. MLA, APA, or CHI). Please refer to the Academic Formatting Guide to assist with formatting and setting up your paper correctly.
**Helpful Submission Tip(s) for Task 2:**
While not required, I strongly recommend that you format your paper following the rubric structure. Please label each section clearly with headings such as A, B1, B2, B3, etc.. This makes it much easier to align your responses directly with each rubric prompt.
Using this approach will also benefit you if the task is returned for revisions, as you (and the evaluator) can quickly locate the specific section that needs adjustment.
Additionally, I suggest using a ledger format (bullet points, clear subheadings, or tables as appropriate) to help organize your information within each section. This structure will make your paper more reader-friendly and ensure that all required elements are addressed clearly and efficiently.
Remember, the goal is to make your work as easy as possible to evaluate, while still maintaining professional formatting. You’ve got this!
## Section A: Toxic Leadership Behaviors
**A. Describe Three Toxic Leadership Behaviors:**
Select 3 toxic leadership behaviors. Provide one specific example for each behavior. Support your descriptions with one scholarly source (journal article, book, or credible resources).
**A1. Explaining Influence on Leadership Effectiveness and Organizational Culture:** Explain how each toxic behavior negatively impacts leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. Include two specific examples to illustrate these impacts. Use one scholarly source to support your explanation.
**A2. Ethical Consequences:**
Discuss the ethical consequences of each toxic leadership behavior. Provide two specific situations where ethical issues resulted from toxic leadership behaviors. Support your discussion with one scholarly source.
**Tip:** Use real or fictional examples that clearly demonstrate the ethical and organizational consequences of toxic leadership.
## Section B: Action Items to Prevent Toxic Leadership
**B. Recommend Three Action Items:**
List three practical steps an organization can take to prevent toxic leadership behaviors. Each recommendation should directly address the behaviors you described in Section A. Support your recommendations with one scholarly source.
**B2. Preventing Negative Consequences:**
Explain how each of the three action items will prevent the negative effects of toxic leadership behaviors. Provide one specific example for each action item. Support with one scholarly source.
**B3. Improving Leadership Effectiveness and Culture:**
Explain how the recommended action items will improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. Focus on improvement areas such as motivation, development, or innovation. Provide two opportunities for growth or improvement the organization has not yet utilized.
## Section C: Power and Influence in Leadership
**C1. Positive Leadership Behaviors:**
Explain how positive leadership behaviors help organizations achieve their goals. Tie this explanation to the action items you recommended in Section B. Support your explanation with one scholarly source.
**C2. How Toxic Behaviors Inhibit Organizational Goals:**
Analyze how toxic leadership behaviors prevent organizations from reaching their goals. Support your analysis with at least one scholarly source.
## References
· Include all sources cited throughout your paper.
· Follow APA formatting guidelines for all in-text citations and references.
· Please use the Academic Formatting Guide to assist with formatting.
**## Rubric.docx**
Rubric
**A:Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The submission identifies 3 toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit within an organization and logically describes each of those behaviors, including a specific example of each of the behaviors.
**A1:Influence of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how each of the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
**A2:Ethical Consequences of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior has ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
**A3:Toxic Leadership Behaviors Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts A, A1, and A2.
**B:Action Item Recommendations**
**Competent**
The recommendation identifies 3 relevant action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
**B1:Preventing Negative Consequences**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can prevent the negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization. The explanation includes a specific example of a potential negative consequence that each action item would prevent and logically describes how the action item would prevent that negative consequence.
**B2:Improving Motivation, Development, or Innovation**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
**B3:Action Items Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts B, B1, and B2.
**C1:Positive Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
**C2:Toxic Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
**C3:Achieving Organizational Goals Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts C1 and C2.
**D:** [**Sources**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/71484321)
**Competent**
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.
**E:** [**Professional Communication**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/27641407)
**Competent**
This submission includes satisfactory use of grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, and punctuation, which promote accurate interpretation and understanding.
**## Introduction.docx**
Introduction
For this task, you will write a paper evaluating how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals and organizational culture. Specifically, you will focus on leaders’ toxic leadership behaviors and the ethical consequences of those behaviors on leadership effectiveness. By demonstrating knowledge of toxic leadership behaviors and their ethical consequences, you can minimize adverse effects on performance and positively and proactively influence organizational culture to achieve individual and organizational goals.
Requirements
Your submission must represent your original work and understanding of the course material. Most performance assessment submissions are automatically scanned through the University’s similarity checker. Students are strongly encouraged to wait for the similarity report to generate after uploading their work and then review it to ensure Academic Authenticity guidelines are met before submitting the file for evaluation.
_You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course._
Write a paper
_(_
_**suggested length of 15 pages**)_ in which you evaluate how leaders’ behaviors, attitudes, and styles influence the achievement of organizational goals by doing the following:
A. Describe
**three** toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit, including a specific example of each toxic leadership behavior.
_Note: Where examples are asked for in this assessment, you may use hypothetical or real-world examples, as long as all identifying information is removed from any real-world examples used._
1. Explain how
_each_ of the toxic leadership behaviors could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture, including
**two** specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
2. Explain how
_each_ of the toxic leadership behaviors could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness, including
**two** specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior had ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
3. Support your responses for parts A, A1, and A2 with a scholarly source.
B. Recommend
**three** action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
1. Explain how these action items can prevent negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization, including specific examples of how
_each_ action item would prevent the negative consequences (three total examples).
2. Explain how these action items improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
3. Support your responses to parts B, B1, and B2 with a scholarly source.
C. Analyze how power and influence are used to achieve organizational goals by doing the following:
1. Explain how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
2. Explain how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
3. Support your responses to parts C1 and C2 with a scholarly source.
D. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
E. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
**## Task2InstructionalGuide.docx**
## C203 Instructional Guide for Task 2
_In this task, you will examine toxic leadership behaviors and develop recommendations to prevent them. You will also analyze how leadership behaviors affect organizational culture and performance. This instructional guide will provide instructional guidance on each section of the task to help you navigate and successfully complete Task 2 for C203._
Please keep in mind a few tips, you can write in any format you like. There is NO sample paper, please discard that information if you see it somewhere. We allows students to write in any format you choose (i.e. MLA, APA, or CHI). Please refer to the Academic Formatting Guide to assist with formatting and setting up your paper correctly.
**Helpful Submission Tip(s) for Task 2:**
While not required, I strongly recommend that you format your paper following the rubric structure. Please label each section clearly with headings such as A, B1, B2, B3, etc.. This makes it much easier to align your responses directly with each rubric prompt.
Using this approach will also benefit you if the task is returned for revisions, as you (and the evaluator) can quickly locate the specific section that needs adjustment.
Additionally, I suggest using a ledger format (bullet points, clear subheadings, or tables as appropriate) to help organize your information within each section. This structure will make your paper more reader-friendly and ensure that all required elements are addressed clearly and efficiently.
Remember, the goal is to make your work as easy as possible to evaluate, while still maintaining professional formatting. You’ve got this!
## Section A: Toxic Leadership Behaviors
**A. Describe Three Toxic Leadership Behaviors:**
Select 3 toxic leadership behaviors. Provide one specific example for each behavior. Support your descriptions with one scholarly source (journal article, book, or credible resources).
**A1. Explaining Influence on Leadership Effectiveness and Organizational Culture:** Explain how each toxic behavior negatively impacts leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. Include two specific examples to illustrate these impacts. Use one scholarly source to support your explanation.
**A2. Ethical Consequences:**
Discuss the ethical consequences of each toxic leadership behavior. Provide two specific situations where ethical issues resulted from toxic leadership behaviors. Support your discussion with one scholarly source.
**Tip:** Use real or fictional examples that clearly demonstrate the ethical and organizational consequences of toxic leadership.
## Section B: Action Items to Prevent Toxic Leadership
**B. Recommend Three Action Items:**
List three practical steps an organization can take to prevent toxic leadership behaviors. Each recommendation should directly address the behaviors you described in Section A. Support your recommendations with one scholarly source.
**B2. Preventing Negative Consequences:**
Explain how each of the three action items will prevent the negative effects of toxic leadership behaviors. Provide one specific example for each action item. Support with one scholarly source.
**B3. Improving Leadership Effectiveness and Culture:**
Explain how the recommended action items will improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. Focus on improvement areas such as motivation, development, or innovation. Provide two opportunities for growth or improvement the organization has not yet utilized.
## Section C: Power and Influence in Leadership
**C1. Positive Leadership Behaviors:**
Explain how positive leadership behaviors help organizations achieve their goals. Tie this explanation to the action items you recommended in Section B. Support your explanation with one scholarly source.
**C2. How Toxic Behaviors Inhibit Organizational Goals:**
Analyze how toxic leadership behaviors prevent organizations from reaching their goals. Support your analysis with at least one scholarly source.
## References
· Include all sources cited throughout your paper.
· Follow APA formatting guidelines for all in-text citations and references.
· Please use the Academic Formatting Guide to assist with formatting.
**## Rubric.docx**
Rubric
**A:Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The submission identifies 3 toxic leadership behaviors that a leader could exhibit within an organization and logically describes each of those behaviors, including a specific example of each of the behaviors.
**A1:Influence of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how each of the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could influence leadership effectiveness and organizational culture. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of how the toxic leadership behaviors have influenced leadership effectiveness and organizational culture.
**A2:Ethical Consequences of Toxic Leadership Behaviors**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A could have ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness. The explanation includes 2 specific examples of a situation in which a toxic leadership behavior has ethical consequences for leadership effectiveness.
**A3:Toxic Leadership Behaviors Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts A, A1, and A2.
**B:Action Item Recommendations**
**Competent**
The recommendation identifies 3 relevant action items to prevent the toxic leadership behaviors described in part A.
**B1:Preventing Negative Consequences**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can prevent the negative consequences of the toxic leadership behaviors within an organization. The explanation includes a specific example of a potential negative consequence that each action item would prevent and logically describes how the action item would prevent that negative consequence.
**B2:Improving Motivation, Development, or Innovation**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how the action items from part B can improve leadership effectiveness and organizational culture in terms of motivation, development, or innovation.
**B3:Action Items Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts B, B1, and B2.
**C1:Positive Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how positive leadership behaviors help an organization achieve its goals.
**C2:Toxic Leadership Behaviors and Organizational Goals**
**Competent**
The explanation logically describes how toxic leadership behaviors inhibit an organization’s ability to achieve its goals.
**C3:Achieving Organizational Goals Scholarly Source**
**Competent**
The source provided is scholarly and logically supports each of the responses for parts C1 and C2.
**D:** [**Sources**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/71484321)
**Competent**
The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.
**E:** [**Professional Communication**](https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/27641407)
**Competent**
This submission includes satisfactory use of grammar, sentence fluency, contextual spelling, and punctuation, which promote accurate interpretation and understanding.
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