Abstract
This study examines the link between leader Machiavellianism, followers’ perceptions of exploitative leadership, and follower wellbeing. Results from a study with 108 leader-follower dyads revealed that leader Machiavellianism, with its inherent focus on calculative and manipulative behaviors, predicted exploitative leadership. Exploitative leadership, in turn, was positively related to subordinates’ level of emotional exhaustion. Invoking an interactionist perspective on destructive leadership and drawing on trait activation theory, leaders’ evaluations of subordinate performance were found to amplify the effect of leader Machiavellianism on exploitative leadership.
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