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This chapter presents the reader with an exploratory approach of organizational members’ narrative accounts of experiences with toxic leaders providing insight into the employees’ rationale for variations of tolerance and the impact on diversity and inclusion as it is applied in Latin America. Toxic leadership is a phenomenon prevalent in the organizational landscape and can lead to damaging effects on the workplace climate and the employees. The disruption of operational performance and insensitivity to diversity and inclusion initiatives that hinder a toxic leader’s agenda are among the factors discussed in the chapter, which also includes two case studies.
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Santiago, F. (2020). Case Studies on the Effects of Toxic Leadership on Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Within the Latin American and Caribbean Regions. In: de Aquino, C., Rojas, R. (eds) Diversity and Inclusion in Latin American and Caribbean Workplaces. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35419-0_6
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