Toxic leadership and Employee Silence (ES): The Role of Courageous Followership (CF)

Abstract

The article focused on the negative role played by employee silence, as it is one of the symptoms that employees don’t want to give their hundred percent towards the productivity and performance of organizations. Furthermore, toxic leadership can even augment this silence behavior and thus it can be drastic for an organization. The study analyzed the role of courageous followership as a moderating player in this framework. We collected the data from 214 respondents and then various tests were run to test the association. Analysis show that toxic leadership definitely augments the intensity of employee silence, however the role of courageous followership is moderating the effect positively. After screening and cleansing the data, we employed SPSS software to analyze data. Various tests were applied to generate results. It is found that all the hypotheses were approved and the study has theoretical, academic and practical implications for the professionals. Conclusively, the study can be beneficial for the policy makers especially for HR Managers and directors from varied organizations.