Effects of Despotic Leadership and Sexual Harassment on Emotional Exhaustion of Employees in Health Sector of Pakistan: Moderating Role of Organizational Cynicism
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https://doi.org/10.26710/reads.v5i2.587Keywords:
Despotic Leadership, Emotional Exhaustion, Sexual Harassment, Organizational CynicismAbstract
The purpose of this research study has been to examine the relationship between despotic leadership, emotional exhaustion and sexual harassment in the presence of organizational cynicism as the moderator. The above-mentioned relationships were empirically tested by collecting and analyzing the data from the government sector hospitals in Pakistan. The target respondents were female nurses working in the six different hospitals of Multan and Bahawalpur region. The sample of 350 nurses was randomly chosen to collect the data. The results of the study proved the positive effect of despotic leadership with the employee emotional exhaustion. The other relation, which is proved, is the significant positive relationship between sexual harassment and the emotional exhaustion in the presence of organizational cynicism as the moderator. Based on the social exchange theory it is inferred that a reciprocal relationship exists in the organizational context between the leaders and the subordinates when the trauma and depression is lent to the subordinates the subordinates feel emotionally deteriorated.
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