Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation model

Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) of employees is one of the essential requirements for organizations to excel in competition in today's dynamic world. Nowadays, organizations can keep the current pace through competitive advantage. But to acquire competitive advantage, employees must be creative...

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Main Authors: Shahid Mehmood, Riffut Jabeen, Muhammad Asif Khan, Mohammed Arshad Khan, Beata Gavurova, Judit Oláh
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-09-01
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023068810
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author Shahid Mehmood
Riffut Jabeen
Muhammad Asif Khan
Mohammed Arshad Khan
Beata Gavurova
Judit Oláh
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Riffut Jabeen
Muhammad Asif Khan
Mohammed Arshad Khan
Beata Gavurova
Judit Oláh
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description Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) of employees is one of the essential requirements for organizations to excel in competition in today's dynamic world. Nowadays, organizations can keep the current pace through competitive advantage. But to acquire competitive advantage, employees must be creative and innovative in their work-related behaviors. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan are suffering several challenges in this regard. Therefore, current study is designed to examine the role of negative events and negative leadership on the IWB of the employees with mediating role of Psychological Well-being (PsyWB). Further, the moderating role of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) has also been tested. The negative event used in current research is Workplace Incivility (WPI) and Despotic Leadership (DL) from the negative leadership styles examined. Results of the current study showed that the presence of WPI and DL in organizations damage the IWB of employees as they harm the PsyWB of employees. We find that PsyWB mediated the relationship among DL, WPI, and IWB. POS is helpful for employees to overcome the negative issues prevailing in the organizations. The SMEs need to construct policies to eradicate WPI and must discourage despotic personalities to make the environment favorable for employees to protect their IWB. There must be some events that can increase the positive PsyWB of employees to make them more creative and motivated. Likewise, POS must be at sufficient level so that employees feel safe and healthy in all respects.
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spelling doaj.art-12c6fa67c6af4223a067e0e4a1cfc7392023-10-01T06:00:49ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402023-09-0199e19673Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation modelShahid Mehmood0Riffut Jabeen1Muhammad Asif Khan2Mohammed Arshad Khan3Beata Gavurova4Judit Oláh5Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Management Sciences and IT, Mohi-Ud-Din Islamic University Nerian Sharif AJ&K PakistanDepartment of Business Administration, Ghazi University, Dera Ghazi Khan, PakistanDepartment of Commerce, Faculty of Managemet Sciences, University of Kotli 11100, AJK, Pakistan; Corresponding author. Department of Commerce, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Kotli, 11100, Kotli, AJK, Pakistan.Department of Accountancy, College of Administrative and Financial Sciences, Saudi Electronic University, Riyadh 11673, Saudi ArabiaTechnical University of Kosice, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies, Letna 1/9, 042 00 Kosice, SlovakiaJohn von Neumann University, Hungary, 6000 Kecskemét, Izsáki út 10, Hungary; Department of Trade and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech RepublicInnovative Work Behavior (IWB) of employees is one of the essential requirements for organizations to excel in competition in today's dynamic world. Nowadays, organizations can keep the current pace through competitive advantage. But to acquire competitive advantage, employees must be creative and innovative in their work-related behaviors. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan are suffering several challenges in this regard. Therefore, current study is designed to examine the role of negative events and negative leadership on the IWB of the employees with mediating role of Psychological Well-being (PsyWB). Further, the moderating role of Perceived Organizational Support (POS) has also been tested. The negative event used in current research is Workplace Incivility (WPI) and Despotic Leadership (DL) from the negative leadership styles examined. Results of the current study showed that the presence of WPI and DL in organizations damage the IWB of employees as they harm the PsyWB of employees. We find that PsyWB mediated the relationship among DL, WPI, and IWB. POS is helpful for employees to overcome the negative issues prevailing in the organizations. The SMEs need to construct policies to eradicate WPI and must discourage despotic personalities to make the environment favorable for employees to protect their IWB. There must be some events that can increase the positive PsyWB of employees to make them more creative and motivated. Likewise, POS must be at sufficient level so that employees feel safe and healthy in all respects.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023068810Despotic leadershipInnovative work behaviorPerceived organizational supportPsychological well-beingSmall and medium enterprisesWorkplace incivility
spellingShingle Shahid Mehmood
Riffut Jabeen
Muhammad Asif Khan
Mohammed Arshad Khan
Beata Gavurova
Judit Oláh
Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation model
Heliyon
Despotic leadership
Innovative work behavior
Perceived organizational support
Psychological well-being
Small and medium enterprises
Workplace incivility
title Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation model
title_full Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation model
title_fullStr Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation model
title_full_unstemmed Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation model
title_short Impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees: Application of mediation-moderation model
title_sort impact of despotic leadership and workplace incivility on innovative work behavior of employees application of mediation moderation model
topic Despotic leadership
Innovative work behavior
Perceived organizational support
Psychological well-being
Small and medium enterprises
Workplace incivility
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023068810
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