Investigating the relationship between toxic leadership with turnover intention, the mediating role of bullying in the workplace and job insecurity

Despite the long-term relationship between job characteristics and bullying in the workplace, little focus in the literature has been on the role of leaders in shaping this relationship. Hence, a more comprehensive picture of how the workplace influences bullying at work by integrating leadership and job characteristics into a set of processes. Considering Toxic leadership as a negative phenomenon and as a top-down effect on employees, toxic leadership has increased organizational intimidation by manipulating workers' feelings of job insecurity, which in turn contributes to higher relocation intentions.Therefore, the purpose of this article is to Investigating the Relationship between Toxic Leadership with Turnover Intention, the Mediating Role of Bullying in the Workplace and Job Insecurity. The results showed a positive and significant relationship between Toxic leadership with job insecurity, bullying in the workplace and the Turnover Intention. The results also showed that organizational bullying mediates the relationship between Toxic leadership and the Turnover Intention. The results of this study consider the need to pay attention to Toxic leadership and areas of bullying in the workplace to reduce the Turnover Intention. On the other hand, the results showed that job insecurity mediates the relationship between toxic leadership and organizational bullying.