Abusive supervision and workplace deviance and the moderating effects of negative reciprocity beliefs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mitchell, Marie S.; Ambrose, Maureen L.
• 署名单位: University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.4.1159
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1159-1168
• 关键词: ABUSIVE SUPERVISION; WORKPLACE DEVIANCE; RECIPROCITY

摘要

In this study, the authors examine the relationship between abusive supervision and employee workplace deviance. The authors conceptualize abusive supervision as a type of aggression. They use work on retaliation and direct and displaced aggression as a foundation for examining employees' reactions to abusive supervision. The authors predict abusive supervision will be related to supervisor-directed deviance, organizational deviance, and interpersonal deviance. Additionally, the authors examine the moderating effects of negative reciprocity beliefs. They hypothesized that the relationship between abusive supervision and supervisor-directed deviance would be stronger when individuals hold higher negative reciprocity beliefs. The results support this hypotheses. The implications of the results for understanding destructive behaviors in the workplace are examined.