AUTHOR=Akhtar Muhammad Waheed , Huo Chunhui , Syed Fauzia , Safdar Muhammad Arslan , Rasool Arsalan , Husnain Mudassir , Awais Muhammad , Sajjad Muhammad Shoaib 

TITLE=Carrot and Stick Approach: The Exploitative Leadership and Absenteeism in Education Sector

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.890064

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.890064

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Utilizing the conservation of resources theory, the present study investigates serially mediation of facades of conformity and depression between exploitative leadership and absenteeism. A total of 211 education sector employees using the convenient sampling technique took part in the survey with data collected in a time-lagged research design. The findings of the study reveal that facades of conformity and depression mediate the independent paths and plays a serial mediating role between exploitative leadership and absenteeism path. The present study suggests that exploitative leadership (EL) works as a workplace stressor, under which employees try to protect their valuable resources from further loss in the form of facades of conformity, in doing, so it leads to depression; thus employees ultimately use absenteeism as an active coping strategy to cope up with workplace stressors.