The Impact of Despotic Leadership on Emotional Exhaustion: Mediating Role of Dehumanization and Moderating Role of Organizational Justice

Among the most significant variables are leadership which has been the subject of various scholars over the past several years. Since its beginning, leadership has been viewed through the perspective of emphasizing the good influence of the leaders on the subordinates without paying much attention to the dark side of leadership. In light of this gap, the current study aims to investigate the connection between emotional weariness and autocratic leadership while moderating organizational justice and mediating dehumanization. The sales force survey of the banking sector was used to gather the data for this study, and 820 valid replies were examined. This relationship is somewhat mediated by the discovery that autocratic leadership positively affects emotional weariness and dehumanization. Additionally, organizational justice mitigates the dehumanizing impacts of autocratic leadership. The investigation of dehumanization as a mediator between dictatorial leadership and emotional weariness is novel. The study also looks at the moderating impact of organizational justice on the connections between dehumanization and autocratic leadership. The study also looks at the moderating impact of organizational justice on the connections between dehumanization and autocratic leadership, and there is no scholarly literature on these connections.