Title: The dark side of organisation identification: systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis on toxic leadership on employee's behaviour

Authors: Emily Maria K. Jose; Bijay Prasad Kushwaha

Addresses: VIT Business School, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India ' VIT Business School, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

Abstract: This study uses a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis to summarise and synthesise the past, present, and future research of toxic leadership and its impact on employee behaviour. Seventeen documents are extracted from the Scopus database to conduct a systematic literature review. Further, it examines the cause-and-effect relationship between toxic leadership and employee behaviour. This study suggests that the literature on toxic leadership has five dimensions: authoritarian leadership, abusive supervision, narcissism, abusive supervision, and unpredictability. The emerging themes are psychological safety, toxic organisational environment, employee engagement and performance, and turnover intention. The variable reviewed in this research is leadership, toxic leadership, employee behaviour, and workplace behaviour published between 2020 and 2023. The future researcher directions are presented and discussed.

Keywords: leadership; toxic leadership; employee behaviour; workplace behaviour; abusive supervision.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPMB.2024.141538

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, 2024 Vol.18 No.2, pp.240 - 265

Received: 26 May 2023
Accepted: 26 Jun 2023
Published online: 23 Sep 2024 *

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