“…This damaging behavior can adversely affect not only subordinates, but also organizations, employees' families, customers and even society at large As outlined by various researchers, destructive leadership can lead to psychological exhaustion, higher turnover intentions and reduced effectiveness (Harvey, Stoner, Hochwarter, & Kacmar, 2007;Tepper, Duffy, Henle, & Lambert, 2006), reduced organizational commitment, decreased job satisfaction, decreased organizational performance, increased psychological distress and work-family conflict among employees (Aasland, Skogstad, Notelaers, Nielsen, & Einarsen, 2010;Ashforth, 2016;Richman, Flaherty, Rospenda, & Christensen, 1992). The destructive leadership behaviors highlighted by the various researchers that can have adverse effects on the subordinates and organization as a whole have been studied and categorized using terms like destructive leadership (Camgoz & Karapinar, 2021;Samad et al, 2021); abusive supervision (Tepper, 2000); petty tyranny (Ashforth, 2016;Balwant, 2021) and despotic leadership (Aronson, 2001;Jabeen & Rahim, 2021).…”