The Effect of Toxic Leadership on Job Embeddedness

An analytical study of the opinions of a sample of teaching staff in private secondary schools in holy Karbala Governorate

A thesis submitted to the Council of the College of Administration and Economics – University of Karbala

It is part of the requirements for obtaining a Master’s degree in Business Administration

by

Hussein Ali Hussein

Supervised

Assistant Professor Dr.

Rasha Abbas Al-Rubaie

Abstract

The mission of the current study is to test the effect of toxic leadership on the job embeddedness of a sample of private secondary school teachers in holy Karbala Governorate. If it is decided to measure toxic leadership as an independent variable through five dimensions (abusive supervision, narcissism, self-substitute, temporary, authoritarian leadership), and job embeddedness was measured as a variable that follows through its three dimensions (appropriateness, connections, sacrifice). The study was launched from a problem represented by several questions revolving around the nature of the specialized relationship between its field variations, the most important of which is (the extent of its negative impact on job embeddedness). From June, participation in reaching the independent study on the descriptive analytical formation in collecting and interpreting data, and the questionnaire was used as a main tool in collecting data, as it was found that the study was established (250) male and female teachers in private secondary schools. The study began with a set of differences represented by testing the normal distribution and analysis. The confirmatory factor analyzed the correlation and the comprehensive comprehensive model (SEM). The study reached a set of results, the most prominent of which was the existence of an inverse correlation with Moral significance between smart dimensions and the variable of job embeddedness in private secondary schools, as well as between the dimensions of each of them, through a deep understanding of how to control job embeddedness after that from smart shopping centers, and also, enhancing access to the organization and the individual, and the study recommended a number of and stressed its importance, that calling on managers, leaders, officials and shareholders to increase their attention to it are the dimensions of toxic leadership, it is necessary to participate directly in all development initiatives processes by analyzing social and professional relations in multiple fields and knowing the extent of the effects that schools will face in the event that leadership remains toxic within them, so multiple means and strategies must be used to prevent the toxic leader from negatively influencing.

Keywords: toxic leadership, job embeddedness, private secondary schools in holy Karbala Governorate