Presenting a Model for Toxic Behaviors of Managers

Toxic behaviors of managers are behaviors that cause emotional pain in employees. This pain has a negative effect on their self-esteem and reduces their focus on work-related tasks. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to discover the latent toxication in the mind of managers. In order to analyze the information researchers use the method of qualitative research and systematic data-based strategy as well that presented by experts. By using snowball improbable sampling 15 professional staffs that were under poisonous behaviors of managers interviewed by experts .Data analysis performed in three stages of open, axial and selective coding by Max QDA software. At first, 67 primitive codes (696 semantic units) extracted and grouped in 13 categorizes. Some categorizes used as axial codes, and the others make a new axial code to eventually design the paradigm model of poisonous behaviors of managers. In this model, worldview (causative factor), toxic managers include authoritarian, selfish, dictator, paranoid, absent and unpredictable (main category), environment inefficiencies (context), organizational weakness including inefficient organizational culture, structural inefficiency and, non-functional human resources (interfering conditions), political behavior intensification (strategy) and poisonous behaviors consequences (outcome) were identified. Finally, relationship between axial codes performed and selective coding proposed by using the researchers’ opinion and the software proposal.