Toxic Leadership and Sexual Harassment: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Toxic leadership is a type of leadership that has a high-level negative effect on the employee and the organization. There are several negative outcomes of the toxic leadership for the female working under the male toxic leadership. This study aims to investigate how toxic leadership impacts its followers and the overall organization. A systematic review was conducted to identify how toxic leadership affects the behavior of employees and the organization. A systematic review was performed according to the PRISMA diagram present in this study. Out of 1533 papers, only 25 articles were eligible to meet the inclusion criteria of this study. These studies show that toxic leadership has a negative impact on employees and the organization. First, toxic leadership behavior has affect the psychology of the employees over different coping mechanisms, such as sexual harassment, which is one of them. This psychological change has change the employees' behavior. In the end, this long-term behavior has create a negative organizational culture.