Research on Destructive Leadership and its Effects on Employees' Intentions to Quit

Abstract

Abstract: Negative and negative leadership behavior influences the whole organization's operation process and results deeply.This paper hopes to start from the definition of the concept of destructive leadership and boundary effects of it on staff turnover intention, with the help of social exchange theory and affective events theory, selection of emotional exhaustion and cynicism as intermediary variables and team psychological safety, proactive personality as a moderator, to explore the destructive leadership of employee attitude and behavior, especially the impact of turnover intention. The results show that the destructive leadership on individual level behavior and psychological aspects of perception have a significant positive effect, the psychological perception and attitudes will directly affect the employees in the enterprise the ultimate behavior and attitude, and emotional exhaustion and cynicism between destructive leadership and employee turnover intention has a significant intermediary role however, team psychological safety between destructive leadership and employee turnover intention has negative moderating effect.

Key words: destructive leadership, emotional exhaustion, cynicism, team psychological safety

CLC Number:

F270

MA Yue-ru, YU Hang-hai, XIA Bing. Research on Destructive Leadership and its Effects on Employees' Intentions to Quit[J]. , 2018(02): 46-53.

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