The Role of Employee Self-efficacy and Organizational Justice on Counterproductive Work Behavior: Moderating Role of Autocratic Leadership

Abstract

Counterproductive work behavior has been the foremost issue that faced by every organization around the globe and requires the attention of recent studies. Hence, the present study investigates the role of employee self-efficacy and organizational justice on the counterproductive work behavior in medical teaching institution in Pakistan. The study also investigates the moderating impact of autocratic leadership among employee self-efficacy, organizational justice and counterproductive work behavior. The study used the questionnaires to gather the data from the selected doctors. The study also used the PLS-SEM to examine the data reliability and association among variables. The study revealed that the employee self-efficacy and organizational justice have a negative association with counterproductive work behavior. The results also exposed that autocratic leadership significantly moderates among organizational justice and counterproductive work behavior but insignificantly moderates among employee self-efficacy and counterproductive work behavior in medical teaching institution in Pakistan.