Retraction notice: A bitter pill to swallow: the model of despotic leadership, bullying behavior, emotional intelligence and well-being

The publisher of the European Journal of Training and Development wishes to retract the article by Talat Islam, Arooba Chaudhary, Hafiz Fawad Ali (2023) ‘A bitter pill to swallow: the model of despotic leadership, bullying behavior, emotional intelligence and well-being’, published in the European Journal of Training and Development Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print, https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-01-2023-0015. It has come to our attention that there are concerns that the peer review process was compromised; as a result, the findings cannot be relied upon. The authors would like it to be noted that they are not in agreement with this retraction. The publisher of the journal sincerely apologizes to the readers.