Open AccessImpact of destructive leadership styles on the psychological contract breach with the moderating effect of proactive personality
Author(s) -
Muhammad Bilal Kayani,
Imran Ibrahim Alasan
Publication year - 2024
Publication title -
journal of management info
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-0532
pISSN - 2313-3376
DOI - 10.31580/jmi.v8i1.1963
Subject(s) - moderation , psychological contract , psychology , personality , structural equation modeling , social psychology , sample (material) , leadership style , applied psychology , computer science , chemistry , chromatography , machine learning
This research has an aim to investigate the impact of toxic and exploitative leadership and subordinate psychological contract breach, the moderation role of proactive personality within the proposed framework between the toxic leadership with psychological contract breach and exploitative leadership with psychological contract breach. Data was gathered utilizing a cross-sectional research technique. The sample of the study constituted 386 frontline nurses from public sector hospitals of Pakistan. Structural equation modelling was utilized for analyzing the collected data. Toxic and exploitative leadership had a significant positive impact on psychological contract breach. However, moderation of proactive personality was found to be insignificant between both relations.