Recent we notice a growing body of research that are interested in the dark side of leadership. This is actually a reflection of a broader critical thinking movement in organisational sciences (Griffin and O'Leary-Kelly, 2004), where scholars have studied injustice, political behaviour, aggression and unethical behaviour. This area of leadership includes topics such as destructive leadership (Schaubroeck et al., 2007). Studies on destructive leaders have typically examined the characteristics of such leaders and personal as well as situational characteristics that promote the emergence of destructive leaders. Discuss the 6 attributes of destructive leaders as well as the personal and situational characteristics that facilitate the occurrence of such leadership behaviour.