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    UNPACKING WORKPLACE DYNAMICS
    (UMT, Lahore, 2024-09-18) Zakra Ahmad
    The workplace environment is significant and plays a vital role in the progress of any organization. That’s make important to identify factors that affect the workplace harmony. This research explores the workplace dynamics and investigate the factors affecting insubordination under the lens of social overload, employees’ mental health, perceived work overload and the exploitative leadership. The first main purpose of this research is to examine the effects of social overload on insubordination. The second objective is to investigate the impact of social overload on insubordination through the sequential mediation of employees’ mental health and perceived work overload. The third objective is to assess the moderation of exploitative leadership on the relationship between perceived work overload and insubordination at the workplace. The affect theory, which examines emotions in-depth, supports our research. This is a quantitative study following a positivist philosophy approach, making it objective in nature. A convenience sampling method was used to collect data from employees working in the telecom sector in Lahore, Punjab. It is a time-lag study with 550 questionnaires distributed at the first point in time and 309 distributed at the second point, from which 250 were fully completed and used for analysis. Data were analyzed through PLS-PM and SEMINR using R Studio, a statistical package. Various statistical techniques were used, including demographic analysis, Model Goodness Fit Indexes, factor loading and reliability analysis, composite reliability analysis, correlation and descriptive analysis, Fornell and Larcker criterion, Heterotrait-Monotrait Analysis, and direct, indirect, sequential, and interaction term analysis. Twelve hypotheses were proposed and statistically accepted. The results indicate that employees’ mental health is disturbed by extensive social media use, leading to perceived work overload and ultimately causing insubordination at the workplace. Additionally, this relationship is amplified in the presence of exploitative leadership. This research contributes theoretically to the body of knowledge and provides practical guidance for management to control factors contributing to insubordination while making policies. The research also has limitations, such as the sampling technique, focus on one sector, and data collected from a specific cultural region. Future research should test this model in other sectors with different sampling techniques and larger sample sizes, and consider incorporating additional variables such as psychological capital, hope and resilience, organizational support, transformational leadership, and paradoxical leadership