Toxic leadership and safety performance: Does organizational commitment act as stress moderator?

Ensuring safety is the key to sustainability especially, in the oil and gas sector. The study aims to examine the effects of five dimensions of toxic leadership on the safety performance of engineers working in Oil and Gas Companies. Through social learning theory and conservation of resource theory...

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Published inCogent business & management Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16
Main Authors Saleem, Farid, Malik, Muhammad Imran, Malik, Muhammad Kamran
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis 2021
Cogent
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
abusive supervision
authoritarian leadership
Narcissism
Natural gas utilities
Organizational commitment
safety performance
self-promotion
unpredictability
Islamabad Pakistan
Pakistan
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Summary:Ensuring safety is the key to sustainability especially, in the oil and gas sector. The study aims to examine the effects of five dimensions of toxic leadership on the safety performance of engineers working in Oil and Gas Companies. Through social learning theory and conservation of resource theory, an overarching framework of the research model has been proposed. Cross-sectional data from a sample of 219 site engineers, male and female, working in oil and gas companies operating in Pakistan, were collected and analyzed. Results revealed that out of five dimensions of toxic leadership, only abusive supervision and narcissism had a significant negative impact on safety performance. Similarly, organizational commitment appeared as an essential stress moderator and has successfully dampened the negative impact of abusive supervision and narcissism on safety performance.
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ISSN:2331-1975
2331-1975
DOI:10.1080/23311975.2021.1960246