Abstract
A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ON POSSIBILITY OF WHISTLEBLOWING AT ELIMINATING OF INTOXICATION AND TOXIC LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATIONAL TOXICITY
Toxic leaders who are motivated with his/her personal interests exhibit devastating, rude, tyrant and even irregular behaviours and these behaviours may cause negative and permanent effect upon organization’s employees, the whole organization and the followers being in the first place. While toxic leaders’ behaviours affect motivation and performance of the organization members negatively, organization’s productivity may decrease. To prevent toxic behaviours, whistleblowing is an alternative behaviour of organization member. However, in order that the organization member decide for whistleblowing, proper organizational conditions need to be provided.
In this search in order to prevent and/or remove toxic behaviours and organizational toxicity that if healthcare professionals’leaders (managers) perceived whistleblowing as an effective mechanism or not and whistleblowing possibilities were researched via qualitative interview method. Qualitative method in this study helps employees prefer other behaviour possibilities to prevent/correct organizational toxicity.
Keywords
toxic leadership, organizational toxicity, whistleblowing
