Perils of being close to a bad leader in a bad environment: Exploring the combined effects of despotic leadership, leader member exchange, and perceived organizational politics on behaviors

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Linking core self-evaluation and emotional exhaustion with workplace loneliness: does high LMX make the consequence worse? (2019, background): “This finding fills the gap in the literature of LMX where we find less focus is on the ill-effects of high LMX (Naseer et al., 2016).”
Speaking Up at Work: The Role of Perceived Organizational Support in Explaining the Relationship Between Perceptions of Organizational Politics and Voice Behavior (2020, methodology): “Similar to past research (e.g., Abbas et al., 2014; Naseer et al., 2016; Randall et al., 1999; Rosen et al., 2006), the 12 items were summed to form an overall perceptions of organizational politics measure using a 5-point Likert-type scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree).”
Leadership, creativity and innovation: a meta-analytic review (2020, background): “Despotic leaders are selfinterested, morally corrupt, have low ethical standards (De Hoogh & Den Hartog, 2008), and egoistic motives designed to manipulate and exploit followers for personal gain (Naseer et al., 2016).”
Ethical Leadership and Internal Whistleblowing: A Mediated Moderation Model (2017, background): “Organizational politics refers to the use or exercise of power or influence to maximize short-term or long-term self-interests, in an intentional manner (Naseer et al. 2016; Pfeffer 1992).”