Investigating the Effect of Egocentric and Personal Risk Taking of Organization Leader on Deviant Behaviors (Mediating Role of Organizational Values and Emotional Exhaustion in Zoob Ahan Stock Company)

This research was conducted with the aim of studying the role of egocentric leadership, supervisor's personal risk taking on organizational value, emotional exhaustion and organizational deviant behaviors among employees of Zoob Ahan Stock Company. Research statistical population was the employees of Zool Ahan Stock Company in autumn 1388 (about 7000 persons). Among them, 385 people were selected with the use of stratified sampling from employee's names list. Research instruments consisted of organizational values questionnaire, emotional exhaustion, organizational deviant behaviors, egocentric leadership and supervisor risk taking scale. Data were analyzed through Pearson's correlation coefficient, mediation analysis and structure equation modeling (SEM). Results showed that in a sequential processes, there are significant relationships between supervisor's personal risk taking with organizational values and emotional exhaustion, and between egocentric leadership and emotional exhaustion (p < 0.01). Along with these relationships, there are significant relationships between organizational values, supervisor's personal risk taking and egocentric leadership with emotional exhaustion and finally, there are significant relationships between emotional exhaustion and egocentric leadership with h organizational deviant behavior (p < 0.01).