Abstract

The toxic leadership has been widely recognized as significant contributor towards the various employees and organizational outcomes. The toxic leader’s behavior drives the performance negatively whether it is the individual performance, mental wellness or physical health, stress or anxiety level or the collectively work environment or organizational performance. The researchers devised some strategies to mitigate the toxic leadership effects and create a sophisticated and productive environment for work. The current research develops a deep insight as how leaders select and implement specific strategies endured with behavior for the upgrading of workplace climate and brings positive social changes. This research positively contributes in bringing social change by developing practical models and suggests how to create citizenship behavior less toxic than usual. The positive behavior of leader not only affects individual behavior rather it raises the organizational citizenship behavior and conducive situation. The citizenship behavior of the employee depends upon the leader’s behavior and attitude. In this connection, the nature of this study is qualitative that aimed to examine the toxic leadership role towards organizational citizenship behavior by examining the existing literature.

Key words: toxic leadership, organizations, environment