The Impact of Toxic Leadership on Job Satisfaction with the Mediating role of Affective Commitment: A study of the Telecom sector of Pakistan

Abstract

Diversity of the emerging leadership and human resource practices in the contemporary era is changing the world. It has overblown the importance of HR Practices for the leading businesses around the globe and the necessity of exceptionality in the practices adapted. These are creating formidable new challenges in which business leaders can anticipate and plan for the effects of these new technologies on their organizations. In the current scenario, there are competitively high growths, emerging awareness of employee retention and , emotional intelligence, and strategic utilization of leadership exhibiting how fundamental is the connectivity and correlativity amidst global competitors to enable maintaining a consistent sustainable and competitive advantage in the market. In addition to this, directing the research direction towards assessing the gap through gathering information, making decisions, trying best practices and finally designing plans and practices in the ambit of HR practices and economic well-being. Resultantly, this study aims in bridging the gap between these two variables particularly when linked with HR practices. The gap identified continues with the exploration of how toxic leadership intervenes with job satisfaction as well as affective commitment with profound changes that are being driven by levels and quality of leadership. Data collection has been carried out by using the instrument of survey questionnaire with further analysis through SPSS. The research under taken is quantitative in nature . The qualitative data in the research has been acquired from various secondary sources. However, the primary data has been accessed through utilizing the Survey technique.. This study provided the empirical confirmation thereby supporting the framework of the toxic leadership and it’s correlativity to job satisfaction and the mediator of affective commitment. In specificity toxic leadership has negative implications on job satisfaction and affective commitment which is in line with the findings of this research.