The Role of Emotional Burnout in the Relationship between Obsessive Passionate Leadership and Self-Efficacy

This study focuses on improving our understanding of the nature of leadership by addressing the concept of leadership passion. An obsessive passion for leadership reflects a strict, intense, and unremitting need to be involved in leadership activities. From this point of view, the study aimed to reveal the moderator role of emotional burnout in this relationship by focusing on the relationship between obsessive passionate leadership and self-efficacy. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained from 321 business executives operating in the basic metal industry sector in İzmir Atatürk Organized Industrial Zone with SmartPLS, the negative effect of obsessive passionate leadership on self-efficacy was determined and it was revealed that emotional burnout had a moderating effect in this relationship. The study confirms the important effects of obsessive passionate leadership. Research findings show that managers operating in the organizational environment exhibit leadership behaviors in direct proportion to the Dual Passion Model, and that the obsessive passion dimension suggested by the model has negative personality traits. This result contributes to the literature in line with its negative results by revealing the organizational effects of the concept of obsessive passionate leadership, which is new in the literature. Based on the current findings, recommendations are made for future studies on the relationship of the concept of obsessive passionate leadership with different concepts in organizational life.