Worse-off than others? Abusive supervision’s effects in teams
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Yonghong (Tracy) Liu, Assistant Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how relative abusive supervision (i.e. team member’s perceived abusive supervision as compared with the team mean) influences team member’s job attitudes through the mediating role of relative leader–member exchange. This study also explores the cross-level moderating roles of team-level abusive supervision and team-level leader–member exchange (LMX) in the process. Design/methodology/approach: This study used two-wave data from 1,479 employees in 145 work teams, and tested a cross-level moderated mediation model using multilevel structural equation modeling. Findings: Results demonstrate that the negative indirect effects of relative abusive supervision on job satisfaction and team affective commitment through relative LMX are stronger when team-level abusive supervision is low rather than high. Originality/value: Integrating LMX theory with a relative deprivation perspective, this study conceptualizes and operationalizes relative abusive supervision, develops an individual-within-group model of abusive supervision’s consequences in teams and demonstrates a cross-level moderating effect of team-level abusive supervision in buffering relative abusive supervision’s negative consequences.
Worse-off than others? Abusive supervision’s effects in teams
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Managerial Psychology, 33(6), 418-436. DOI 10.1108/JMP-12-2017-0476
- Language: English
- Date: 2018
- Keywords
- structural equation modelling, leader-member exchange