Influence of Despotic Leadership on Personnel Lives via Emotional Exhaustion and Moderating role of Perceived Supervisory Support. A Testing of COR Model

Abstract

Dynamics of organizations become more and more diverse, there is a greater need for leaders who manipulate their followers to achieve organizational goals and improve their performances. The objective of this research is to inspect the association among despotic leadership and employees’ life. The ignored areas of research are negative impacts of despotic leadership on follower’s personal life. By testing the COR Model, this research examines the intervening impact of emotional exhumation by which despotic leadership surpass from work setting to workers’ personal lives and consequence in lower wellbeing. The study also investigates the moderating impact of employee’s perceived supervisory support on the association of their observations of despotic leadership with employee’s wellbeing. Time lags were utilized to gather the data from 384 employees of hospitality industry of Sri Lanka. To run moderation, the Hayes’ PROCESS was used and SEM to test mediation. Consequences of this research recommend that dark side of leadership like despotic leadership negatively affects the wellbeing through emotional exhaustion. The consequences of this research show that despotic leadership badly affect the employees’ wellbeing and these effects strengthen when there is less perceived supervisory support.