Toxic leadership and Social undermining: Clarifying the mediating role of Organizational anomie in government organizations

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Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Lorestan University, Khoramabad, Iran

10.22059/jomc.2025.383187.1008712

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Toxic leadership on employees' social undermining with the mediating role of organizational anomie in government organizations in Lorestan province. In terms of purpose, the present study is an application that falls into the category of descriptive correlational research. The statistical population of the study was 1350 employees of general staff of Lorestan province based in Khorramabad city. According to the Morgan table, a sample size of 300 was selected by stratified random sampling. In order to measure the variables of the research, Schmidt’s Toxic leadership questionnaire (2008), Zoghbi and Espino’s organizational anomie (2007) and the social undermining of Duffy et al's (2002) have been used. The reliability of the questionnaires was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. In this research, descriptive and inferential statistical methods have been used and to analyze the research data, structural equation modeling and pls software have been used. The results showed that Toxic leadership through organizational anomie has a positive and significant effect on employees' social undermining in government organizations of Lorestan province.

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Organizational Culture Management

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Available Online from 12 January 2025

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