Employees With Stigmatized Identity Suffer More! How Much Psychopath and Uncivil Leaders Contribute?

Purpose: This research aims to investigate our assumption that employees with a stigmatized identity are more likely to become the victims of their supervisor's workplace incivility. Further, psychopathy's moderating role between stigmatized identity and workplace incivility. Design/methodology: This research used non-probability sampling technique. Data were collected from supervisors and their subordinates serving in Multan's four tertiary healthcare sector, 300 dyads of questionnaires used in this study. Findings: The empirical results show that stigmatized identity is an important antecedent of workplace incivility in the workplace. Current study findings also show that psychopathy positively predicts workplace incivility. Research limitations / recommendations: This study is not such an experimental nature, but follows a cross-sectional design. Future research may also focus on experimental design by incorporating time elements, and since multi-level analysis is not used in this study, design and analysis should be nested. In additionally, this study used only one form of Dark Triad (Psychopathy) to measure the behavior of supervisors researchers should also consider all three types of Dark Triad using. Practical and theoretical implications: This study highlights whether individuals are threatened in workplace or not when individuals have stigmatized identity. This study will help with organizational action to prevent rude behavior from spreading throughout the organization. The findings of this study have significant managerial implications and give directions for future research. Originality/value: Previous research emphasized more on consequences of workplace incivility but the present study offers its unique contribution by emphasizing on antecedents as stigmatized identity with workplace incivility as well as moderating role of psychopathy.