Abusive supervision and work behaviors: The mediating role of LMX |
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| Authors: | Erica Xu Xu Huang Catherine K Lam Qing Miao |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Management and Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, , Hong Kong, China;2. Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong, , Hong Kong, China;3. Department of Management, Zhe Jiang University, , Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China |
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| Abstract: | We investigated the mediating role of the leader–member exchange (LMX) in the association of abusive supervision and employee work behaviors (task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors toward the organization and individuals). Using data collected from 366 supervisor–subordinate dyads, we found that LMX fully mediated the negative effects of abusive supervision on all three work behaviors. In addition, we conducted a supplementary study on the basis of the data collected from 54 supervisor–subordinate dyads from a garment company, and we found that LMX mediated the relationship between abusive supervision and employee objective future performance with interactional justice controlled. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | abusive supervision leader– member exchange (LMX) task performance OCBO OCBI |
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