This research is developed to find the impact of despotic leadership on employee trust and task performance. Two way interactions of moderators such as employee trust in connection between despotic leadership behaviour of superior and employee task performance is investigated in this study. The study targeted on manufacturing industries of cement, automobile and sports sectors. The study was conducted on 315 workers using simple random sampling among manufacturing industries in Tamil Nadu. To analyse the data the statistical methods like regression, descriptive analysis, Cronbach alpha and Hayes Process-Macro were adopted. The data was analysed by using M.S.Excel and SPSS The study has investigated the under recognized topic of destructive leadership in a developing nation's cultural context. Future research and conduct will be significantly impacted by the study's findings.