پژوهشهای مدیریت عمومی (May 2022)
Factors Affecting on the Toxic Political Behaviors of Managers and its Consequences with the Moderating Role of Coaching and Cognitive Cynicism
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Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting on the toxic political behaviors of managers with the moderating role of coaching and cognitive cynicism. According to the research literature and using the open system approach, the variables of toxicity illness of managers, organizational weakness and environmental inefficiency were identified and coaching variables and cognitive cynicism were considered as moderating variables. Data were collected using a survey strategy and a questionnaire. A total of 8 hypotheses were examined and 7 were confirmed. Introduction The qualities that characterize an effective leader have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention. However, what happens when leaders fail to embody these qualities? Only relatively recently has the harmful side of leadership become a focus of academic inquiry. Harmful leaders with toxic political behaviors have been found to have negative effects on organizational outcomes, employee morale and motivation. Yet does responsibility for harmful or toxic leadership rest solely with the leader? We suggested that toxic political behaviors of managers are a confluence of the leader (illness of toxic manager), organizational weakness and the environment that facilitates it – the toxic behavior. Toxic political behaviors of managers can lead to emotional pain in employees and distract the organization from its goals and mission. Case study The statistical population of the study is government organizations in the south of Fars province. Due to the size of the statistical population, cluster sampling as well as Cochran’s formula for an infinite population was used. Materials and Methods The present study is applied in terms of purpose and is a descriptive-survey that describes the conditions and phenomena studied. The research literature was compiled by library method and data collection was done by questionnaire. Cranach’s alpha, composite reliability, communality reliability, convergent validity and divergent validity were used to determine the reliability and validity of the constructs. Discussion and Results In this paper, 8 hypotheses were investigated, and 7 of them were confirmed. On the other hand, the results showed that the environmental inefficiency effective on the illness of toxicity of managers and the illness of toxicity of managers effective on organizational weakness. The variables of illness of toxicity of managers and organizational weakness affect on toxic political behaviors, but the affect environmental inefficiency on toxic political behaviors was rejected. Toxic political behaviors lead to negative individual and organizational consequences. The results of the moderator variable showed that coaching negatively modulates the relationship between illness of toxicity of managers and organizational weakness. Finally, cognitive cynicism positively moderates the relationship between illness of toxicity and toxic political behaviors. Conclusion Toxic political behaviors and their consequences are the result of a systematic process, and reliance on one or more factors alone cannot stop this toxic cycle. Therefore, coping strategies are proposed in three forms of individual, organizational and environmental strategies for toxic systemic behaviors of managers.
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