Abstract:
Leadership has been an essential topic of organizational science since the
beginning of this field. Previously, researchers focused on how successful
leaders improve organizations and increase the effectiveness of their
followers. This study examines the effect of toxic leadership on organizational
performance mediated by work deviant behavior (WDB) of employees with a
sample of 100 respondents. The method used in this research is quantitative,
in the form of a questionnaire. The results of this study indicate that toxic
leadership significantly affects organizational performance, which is
significantly less than 0.05. Toxic leadership significantly affects deviant
employee behavior, as indicated by a significant value of less than 0.05.
Deviant behavior in the workplace has no significant effect on organizational
performance with a significantly less than or equal to 0.05. Deviant behavior
in the workplace mediates toxic leadership with organizational performance
with a direct influence value of 0.734 and an indirect effect of 0.901, so all
hypotheses are accepted. This will be an important note for future researchers
who will explore and review the causes of deviant behavior in the workplace
has no significant effect on organizational performance and deviant behavior
in the workplace mediates toxic leadership with organizational performance.
