This paper addresses despotic leadership and ideological manipulation in the workplace, explores their detrimental consequences for employees other stakeholders. The notion of ‘hegemonic totalism’ is advanced to account how are often subordinated will powerful elites. Our argument illustrated through a case study Theranos, high prolife Silicon Valley biotech company that promised revolution hea...

Most primate societies are characterised by hierarchical dominance structures. Males are usually dominant over females, but in periods of sexual attraction (during females period of tumescence) male ‘tolerance’ towards females rises. (Hemelrijk, 2002) shows in a model that this ‘tolerance’ is created as a side effect due to the rise of female dominance during periods of sexual attraction. This ...

This research investigates the antecedents of employee engagement in Pakistan’s banks to conceptualize idea engagement. For this, study examines relationship between transformational leadership (TL), despotic (DL), and mediation psychological distress (PD) with an outcome variable, (EE). The focused on first-line bank managers based Punjab province using a cluster sampling technique. A question...

Modernization theory is a cornerstone of much political science, despite the mounting evidence against its predictions. We outline in which distribution power critically combines with culture. call basic components culture “attributes” and argue that these can be combined into larger cultural configurations. These configurations interact lead to three distinct self-reinforcing paths development...

Purpose: The aim of this paper was to examine the effect despotic leadership behavior on followers’ counterproductive behavior. It also hypothesized that would be mediated by reduced organization-based self-esteem (ROBSE) and moderated employee emotional stability. We draw upon conservation resources perspective social exchange theory. Theoretical framework: theory. Design/methodology/approac...