The Impact of Toxic Leadership on Job Attitudes A Study on Teaching Hospitals in Egypt

The objective of the research is to identify the impact of Toxic Leadership (TL) on Job Attitudes (JA) in terms of job satisfaction (JS) and Organizational Commitment (OC) at Teaching Hospitals in Egypt. The research community consists of all employees at Teaching Hospitals in Egypt. Due to time and cost constraints, the researcher relied on the sampling method to collect data for the study. The appropriate statistical methods were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. The research has reached a number of results, the most important of which are: (1) TL decreases JS, employee performance, lack of motivation, and absence to work (2) TL increases intention to leave and health problems, (3) there is a negative relationship between TL and JS, (4) TL have impacts in both individual and organizational levels as well, (5) TL decreases OC, (6) TL increases stress and burn out, (7) TL has a significant and positive relationship between intention to leave while negative with OC. In other words, TL is negatively related with motivation and commitment of employees while it is positively correlated with high turnover and intention to leave behaviors of employees. The research concluded that: (1) TL have an impact on JA in terms of JS and OC, (2) the first hypothesis of the paper looked for the significance of relationship between TL and JS. The research showed that there is a significant relationship between TL and JS, (3) the second hypothesis looked for finding whether TL has significant capacity to influence on OC. The research showed that there is significance of relationship between TL and OC, and (4) there are five dimensions of toxic leader behavior which are selfpromotion, abusive supervision, unpredictability, narcissism, and authoritarianism. These dimensions have a negative impact on JS and OC.