Abstract

Drawing on COR theory, this research investigates the negative side of leadership and examines how despotic leadership undermines subordinates’ job performance by testing a serial mediation moderation model. The present study proposes surface acting and emotional exhaustion as explanatory mechanisms in the despotic leadership—performance relationship. Moreover, it investigated faith as a coping mechanism between despotic leadership and surface acting. Three wave time-lagged data were collected from supervisor-subordinate dyads (N= 241) working in manufacturing and service organizations. The results showed that despotic leadership has a direct and negative relationship with job performance and a negative indirect relationship with job performance via surface acting and emotional exhaustion. As expected, when subordinates religious faith increases, the positive relationship between supervisor’s despotism and subordinates’ surface acting becomes weaker. These findings have important implications for organizations wish to mitigate the negative effects of despotic leadership.

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