Impact of despotic

leadership and Aversive

leadership on deviant
workplace behavior in the
nursing sector.
Background
Research Questions
• Does despotic leadership affect deviant workplace behavior of
employees?
• Does aversive leadership affect deviant workplace behavior of
employees?
Significance of the study
• The main objective of conducting this research is to investigate that
how the despotic leadership and aversive leadership in the nursing
sector effects deviant workplace behavior i.e. Theft, misbehaving with
coworkers and many more.
• This study is basically being done in the nursing sector. As the ratio
being explained in the problem statement that there is a narrow
number of girls who want to offer their services in the nursing sector
because the leadership is either demotivating or either dark in their
behavior.
Hypothesis

Despotic
leadership

Despotic
leadership

Aversive
leadership
Methodology (Quantitative study)
Sampling method:
• Population: hospitals twin cities of Pakistan ( Islamabad and
Rawalpindi)
• Sample size: 250 questionnaires (female & Male)
• Sample characteristics
• Data analysis techniques
Discussion
• Out of total hypotheses, two hypotheses have a significant
relationship with the dependent variable and accepted. The
hypothesis has shown that if the despotic and aversive leadership
increases in the organization then deviant workplace behavior also
increases.
• In the literature there were some answers that state that despotic
leadership and aversive leadership have an important effect on
deviant workplace behavior perhaps directly or indirectly by
influencing the nursing sector.
Conclusion
• The main purpose of the study was to analyze the impact of despotic
leadership and aversive leadership on deviant workplace behavior in
the nursing sector. This study was taken because it was necessary to
raise this severe problem that nurses face every day due to the dark
leadership they work under.
• It is the problem that has the least attention in the country. It was
proven by the study that despotic and aversive leadership are one of
the reasons people don’t prefer to be in the nursing profession.