Index

A

Abusive supervision, 6
Academic institution’s higher administration, role of, 45
Academic librarians, 30
effects on, 18–21
healing for, 48–49
Academic libraries, toxic leadership in, 9–11
Academic library administrators, 39, 39–40
Academic library associations, 40
Academic library leaders, 5, 42
Access Services Department, 63
Acknowledging toxic leadership, 15, 27
effects of toxic leadership, 16–18
effects on academic librarians, 18–21
effects on user services, 21–22
“Armchair theorizing”, 4

B

Background checks, 41–42

C

Cases, 53
Characteristics of toxic leader, 7
Clinical depression, 32–33
Collaborations, 44
Communication, 47, 48
Consequences of inaction, 31–34
Contingency leadership theory, 4
Culture of communication, 38, 48

D

Defining toxic leadership, 6–7
Destructive leadership, 6, 6, 7
Documentation, 27

E

Effects of toxic leadership, 16–18
Emotional abuse, 67
“Escape strategies”, 17
Exit interviews, 51, 51–52, 52

F

Favoritism/favorites, 16, 22, 35, 55, 55–56, 56, 56–57, 60, 60–61, 61, 62, 62–63, 63–64, 64, 71

G

Galvanization of librarians, 28–29

H

Healing for the organization free of toxic leaders, 47
academic librarians, healing for, 48–49
librarians who have left, healing for, 50–52
residual toxicity, minimizing, 49–50
High turnover, 17, 22
Hiring a library leader, 45
Human resources, role of, 43–45
Human Resources Department, 30, 38, 43, 44–45

I

Identifying a toxic leader, 8
Inaction
benefits from, 35
consequences of, 31–34
Incidents of toxic behavior, documenting, 27
Institutional memory, 39
Interim leadership, selection of, 37–38, 42–43
Interview process, 41–42

J

Job-specific skills, 42–43

L

Leadership, defining, 1–3
Leadership in academic libraries, 5
“Leadership traits” theory, 1
Legal action, 29
Library and information studies (LIS)
study of leadership in, 3–5
Library associations, 40–41
Library Human Resources, 43
Library Literature & Information Science Full Text, 10
LISA (Library & Information Science Abstracts), 10
LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts), 10
Literature, identifying toxic leadership in, 7–9

M

Mechanisms to counter toxic leadership, 38–39
Mediation, 29
Mentoring, 40, 57, 57

N

New library leader, trusting, 49, 49–50
Nontoxic leader library, maintaining, 41–43

O

“Ombuds services”, 38
Online trainings, 21–22

P

Policies, 37, 38, 44, 48–49
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), 17, 32, 66–67
Professional library associations, 40–41
Psychological treatment, 29

R

Regaining control of academic library, 37
human resources, role of, 43–45
interim leaders selection from within the library, 42–43
interview process, 41–42
lack of “people training”, 40–41
mechanisms to counter toxic leadership, 38–39
nontoxic leader library, maintaining, 41–43
removal of toxic leader, 37–38
role of the academic institution’s higher administration, 45
self-examination, practice of, 39–40
Reporting, 27, 27
Residual toxicity, minimizing, 49–50

S

Self-examination, 39–40
Support network
building, 27–30
expanding, 28–29

T

Toxic behaviors, 15–16, 16, 17
incidents of, documenting, 27
Toxic leader syndrome, 7
Toxic leadership, defined, 6–7
Toxic workplace, 7–8
Toxic-leader-free library, 41
Toxin handlers, 17
Training, 40–41, 44
online, 21–22
Transparency, 37–38

U

Union representatives, 30
Upper administrators, 30, 30–31
User services, effects on, 21–22

W

Witnesses, relationships with, 28
Workplace violence, 6
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