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The role of toxic leadership and perceived organizational support on academic staff’s psychological distress

This study examines the impact of toxic leadership on academic staff’s psychological distress in the Malaysian context. Also, the moderating role of perceived organizational support is explored. A questionnaire was utilized to gather the data (n=450) for this research. The multistage sampling techni...

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Main Authors: Aishah Tamby Omar, Ungku Norulkamar Ungku Ahmad
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Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2020
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HF Commerce
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26993/3/The%20role%20of%20toxic%20leadership%20and%20perceived%20organizational%20support%20on%20academic%20staff%E2%80%99s%20psychological%20distress-Abstract.pdf
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spelling my.ums.eprints.269932021-05-20T11:02:27Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26993/ The role of toxic leadership and perceived organizational support on academic staff’s psychological distress Aishah Tamby Omar Ungku Norulkamar Ungku Ahmad BF Psychology HF Commerce This study examines the impact of toxic leadership on academic staff’s psychological distress in the Malaysian context. Also, the moderating role of perceived organizational support is explored. A questionnaire was utilized to gather the data (n=450) for this research. The multistage sampling technique combines cluster sampling and a simple random sampling involving academic staff from a public university in Malaysia. The SMART PLS-SEM version 3.2.7. was used to analyze the data. Based on the structural model's standardized path coefficients from the PLS results, toxic leadership profoundly influenced employees' psychological distress. However, perceived organizational support was an insignificant moderator of the impact between toxic leadership and psychological distress. The empirical research findings address the gap in the overall body of literature regarding Toxic Leadership Theory, such as the psychological distress and perceived organizational support. Hence, it provides an insight into toxic leadership study that has a few examined in previous research. Toxic leadership phenomenon can be used by the organization to better understand the dark side of leadership style, improve employee knowledge about toxic leadership and emotional coping strategy. Successful preventing toxic leadership is seen as an advantage for organizations that can promote a healthy work environment and a quality leader. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2020-12-05 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26993/3/The%20role%20of%20toxic%20leadership%20and%20perceived%20organizational%20support%20on%20academic%20staff%E2%80%99s%20psychological%20distress-Abstract.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/26993/2/The%20role%20of%20toxic%20leadership%20and%20perceived%20organizational%20support%20on%20academic%20staff%E2%80%99s%20psychological%20distress.pdf Aishah Tamby Omar and Ungku Norulkamar Ungku Ahmad (2020) The role of toxic leadership and perceived organizational support on academic staff’s psychological distress. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 10 (12). pp. 958-980. ISSN 2222-6990 https://hrmars.com/papers/detail/IJARBSS/8388
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HF Commerce
Aishah Tamby Omar
Ungku Norulkamar Ungku Ahmad
The role of toxic leadership and perceived organizational support on academic staff’s psychological distress
description This study examines the impact of toxic leadership on academic staff’s psychological distress in the Malaysian context. Also, the moderating role of perceived organizational support is explored. A questionnaire was utilized to gather the data (n=450) for this research. The multistage sampling technique combines cluster sampling and a simple random sampling involving academic staff from a public university in Malaysia. The SMART PLS-SEM version 3.2.7. was used to analyze the data. Based on the structural model's standardized path coefficients from the PLS results, toxic leadership profoundly influenced employees' psychological distress. However, perceived organizational support was an insignificant moderator of the impact between toxic leadership and psychological distress. The empirical research findings address the gap in the overall body of literature regarding Toxic Leadership Theory, such as the psychological distress and perceived organizational support. Hence, it provides an insight into toxic leadership study that has a few examined in previous research. Toxic leadership phenomenon can be used by the organization to better understand the dark side of leadership style, improve employee knowledge about toxic leadership and emotional coping strategy. Successful preventing toxic leadership is seen as an advantage for organizations that can promote a healthy work environment and a quality leader.
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title The role of toxic leadership and perceived organizational support on academic staff’s psychological distress
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