...Muhammad Zohaib Tahir; Farooq Mughal; Tahir Mumtaz Awan; Aamer Waheed Purpose The study aims to attain insights into the role of destructive leadership and perceived organizational politics as catalysts for employee disengagement through the perspective of social identity theory. The research...

...; this allows human resource practitioners to better predict and address subordinates' perceptions of their managers and to design interventions for improving supervisors' behaviors. Originality/value This study helps in explaining destructive leadership by empirically examining perceptions of narcissism...

... and more destructive facet of leadership style named active, destructive leadership style. Second, based on existing empirical findings, we restructured the transactional facet of full-range leadership by collapsing its components into two new distinct facets representing active constructive leadership...