The Role of Toxic Leadership in Organizational Trauma mediated by Hypocritical Behavior

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of Toxic leadership of principals on organizational trauma mediated by the hypocritical behavior of teachers. The research method was descriptive and correlational. The study population consisted of 16750 teachers all secondary school in Khuzestan province in 2021.Which was people from this population based on Cochran's formula a sample of 407 people was selected by stratified random sampling. To collect data were used Poison Leadership Questionnaire (Schmidt, 2008), Organizational Trauma Questionnaire (Vivian & Horman, 2015) and Hypocritical Behavior Questionnaire (Hadavi Nejad, 2011). Data were analyzed using pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling. The results of the path analysis showed that the toxic leadership of managers had a positive and significant effect on organizational trauma and hypocritical behavior in secondary school teachers. Hypocritical behavior had a positive and significant effect on organizational trauma in secondary school teachers (p≤0.05). In addition, the toxic leadership of principals through hypocritical behavior had an indirect, positive and significant effect on organizational trauma in secondary school teachers (p≤0.05). So that the toxic leadership of managers and hypocritical behavior explained 55% of the changes in organizational trauma among secondary school teachers. It seems that the hypocritical behavior of secondary school teachers plays a mediating role in the relationship between managers' poisonous leadership and creating organizational trauma.