TY - JOUR
T1 - Predictors of abusive supervision
T2 - Supervisor perceptions of deep-level dissimilarity, relationship conflict, and subordinate performance
AU - Tepper, Bennett J.
AU - Moss, Sherry E.
AU - Duffy, Michelle K.
PY - 2011/4/1
Y1 - 2011/4/1
N2 - The moral exclusion literature identifies three previously unexamined predictors of abusive supervision: supervisor perceptions of deep-level dissimilarity, relationship conflict, and subordinate performance. Invoking theory and research on workplace diversity, relationship conflict, and victim precipitation, we model the three predictors as associated with abusive supervision. Path-analytic tests using data collected from supervisor- subordinate dyads at two time points suggest that supervisor perceptions of relationship conflict and subordinate performance mediate the relationship between perceived deep-level dissimilarity and abusive supervision and that relationship conflict mediates that between perceived deep-level dissimilarity and abusive supervision when supervisors perceive subordinates as having low performance.
AB - The moral exclusion literature identifies three previously unexamined predictors of abusive supervision: supervisor perceptions of deep-level dissimilarity, relationship conflict, and subordinate performance. Invoking theory and research on workplace diversity, relationship conflict, and victim precipitation, we model the three predictors as associated with abusive supervision. Path-analytic tests using data collected from supervisor- subordinate dyads at two time points suggest that supervisor perceptions of relationship conflict and subordinate performance mediate the relationship between perceived deep-level dissimilarity and abusive supervision and that relationship conflict mediates that between perceived deep-level dissimilarity and abusive supervision when supervisors perceive subordinates as having low performance.
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U2 - 10.5465/AMJ.2011.60263085
DO - 10.5465/AMJ.2011.60263085
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79955575837
SN - 0001-4273
VL - 54
SP - 279
EP - 294
JO - Academy of Management Journal
JF - Academy of Management Journal
IS - 2
ER -