Abstract:

This study aims to reveal the effects of employees' organizational convictions and psychological capital by measuring their perceptions of toxic leadership behaviors about senior managers. Data from 527 employees working in different sectors was collected through a convenience sampling method (such as online surveys and hand-out surveys) and analyzed. The study focuses on correlation and regression analysis to put forward the relationship between the variables and the impacts. The model can be said to be significant based on the ANOVA test results showing the influence of toxic leadership on prisonization. It has been determined that a self-promoting leader from the lower dimensions of toxic leadership does not create any impact on the prisonization whereas one can refer to a certain influence on the prisonization for the organizations with unpredictable abusive leaders and the ones with narcissistic and authoritarian leaders. The results point out that toxic leadership has a negative influence on organizational prisonization. However, ANOVA test results also point out that the model is not significant for the impact of toxic leadership on the psychological capital. Toxic leadership has, indeed, no influence on psychological resilience, hope, self-sufficiency, and positivity. Therefore, it can be inferred that toxic leadership does not have a meaningful influence on psychological capital. This research presents a discussion on all the results within the body of literature.

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