Abstract:

The objective of this study is, according to the opinions of the staff of the Ministry of National Education (MEB), to reveal the direct impact of toxic leadership behaviors of the MEB senior managers on the employee's organizational trust relationship and the instrumental impact on the employee's organizational commitment. In this context, a total of 1202 volunteers who work in MEB (the head of the branch, officials, educational experts, appointment teachers, the officers, educational experts and appointment teachers in the province and district departments), the senior managers (the general director, the master and the minister in the ministry central department, the provincial and district national educational directors and assistant directors in the district and district) have been asked whether they can show toxic leadership behaviors, and their own opinions about the levels of organizational confidence and organizational commitment. In the analysis of data, visual statistics and structural equality modeling (YEM) were used. The high-level managers in MEB showed a substantially toxic leadership behavior, the staff has a medium level of organizational commitment and the staff has a very small level of organizational confidence. The research finds that the negative middle-level relationship between toxic leadership and organizational trust, the negative low-level relationship between toxic leadership and organizational commitment, and the positive middle-level relationship between organizational commitment and organizational trust. In YEM, toxic leadership and organizational confidence have been shown to have an influence on organizational commitment as a ‘party instrument’. The overall conclusion has been achieved that the toxic leadership effect on organizational security occurs through organizational commitment.

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