Workplace Ostracism as a Mediating Variable in the Relationship between Paradoxical Leader Behaviours and Organizational Inertia

Abstract

Background and Purpose: Many organizations suffer from an increased in the paradoxical behaviours of leaders, leading to followers to feel lonely and the workplace ostracism, which negatively effects the emergence of organizational inertia. The main purpose of this study is to examine direct and indirect effect of paradoxical leader behaviours on organizational inertia through the mediating role of the workplace ostracism.

Keywords

• paradoxical leader behaviours
• workplace ostracism
• organizational inertia