The Moderating Effects of Traditionality on the Negative Effects of Abusive Supervision

Autor: Cheng-lin Sun, Hong-yan Zhou, Li-fang Qiu, Hai-zhen Wang
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: DEStech Transactions on Economics, Business and Management.
ISSN: 2475-8868
DOI: 10.12783/dtem/ahem2020/35347
Popis: The paper aims to examine whether traditionality alleviated or aggravated the negative effects of abusive supervision on employees. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we advanced that the directions of the moderation of traditionality depended on whether the outcomes were relevant to job performance or well-being of employees. We use questionnaire survey to obtain research data from 258 employees. To reduce the common method variance, the data collection process was carried out in two waves. We found that traditionality alleviated the negative relationship between abusive supervision and proficiency performance which was an intra-subordinate role behavior, meanwhile traditionality aggravated the positive relationship between abusive supervision and psychological withdrawal which reflected the well-being of employees and meanwhile was dysfunctional to their work groups. These findings made a contribution that traditionality either alleviated or aggravated the negative effects of abusive supervision on employees. It provides new insights that abusive supervision has different negative effects depending on traditionality.
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