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Destructive Leader Behavior: A Comparison Of Australian, American And Iranian Leaders Using The Destructive Leadership Questionnaire (Dlq), James Shaw, Anthony Erickson, Farzaneh Nasirzadeh

Anthony Erickson

This article provides insights into the important but relatively unexamined issue of destructive leadership in a non-Western country. Although tentative, the article also provides some guidance for expatriate managers in adapting their own behavior to avoid being categorized as “destructive” by non-Western subordinates. In the following pages, we report the findings of a study of destructive leader behaviors among convenience samples of Australian, American, and Iranian leaders. No differences were found between Australian and American leaders in regard to the nature and frequency of destructive behaviors. As a result, the Australian and American data were combined and compared to a …