{"title":"Exploitative leadership and organizational cynicism: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion","authors":"Mervat Elsaied","doi":"10.1108/lodj-02-2021-0069","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"PurposeThe paper aims to clarify the relationship between exploitative leadership (EL) and organizational cynicism (OC). Besides, it aims also to examine the mediating role of emotional exhaustion (EE) underpinning this relation.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected by a questionnaire from 491 employees, who work in four telecom firms.FindingsThe paper provides empirical insights about how EL influenced OC; it suggested that EE fully mediated the positive relationship between EL and OC.Originality/valueTo the author’s knowledge, it is the first study to address the relationship between exploitative leadership and organizational cynicism. In addition, it is the first one to explore the mediating mechanism of emotional exhaustion underpinning this relation.","PeriodicalId":48033,"journal":{"name":"Leadership & Organization Development Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Leadership & Organization Development Journal","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1108/lodj-02-2021-0069","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
PurposeThe paper aims to clarify the relationship between exploitative leadership (EL) and organizational cynicism (OC). Besides, it aims also to examine the mediating role of emotional exhaustion (EE) underpinning this relation.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected by a questionnaire from 491 employees, who work in four telecom firms.FindingsThe paper provides empirical insights about how EL influenced OC; it suggested that EE fully mediated the positive relationship between EL and OC.Originality/valueTo the author’s knowledge, it is the first study to address the relationship between exploitative leadership and organizational cynicism. In addition, it is the first one to explore the mediating mechanism of emotional exhaustion underpinning this relation.
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