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- Title
No Time for Ethics: How and When Time Pressure Leads to Abusive Supervisory Behavior.
- Authors
Zhang, Zhe; Jia, Xingze
- Abstract
We explore in this study whether, how, and when time pressure leads to abusive supervisory behavior. Based on the attentional focus model, we propose that time pressure impairs supervisors' moral awareness, which increases their subsequent abusive supervisory behavior. We also propose that the trait mindfulness of supervisors mitigates the indirect effect of time pressure on abusive supervisory behavior through moral awareness. Based on an experiment conducted by using eye-tracking methods, Study 1 tests and provides support for the relationships between time pressure and moral awareness (N = 53). In Study 2, we test our full theoretical model through an experience sampling methodology for 10 workdays with data from 61 supervisors and their subordinates. Results revealed that time pressure had an indirect and positive effect on abusive supervisory behavior through the supervisors' moral awareness. Such an indirect effect was stronger when the trait mindfulness of the supervisors was low rather than high. We conclude this research by discussing the theoretical and practical implications of our findings as well as future research directions.
- Subjects
TIME pressure; ABUSIVE supervision (Work environment); ABUSIVE behavior; SUPERVISORS; AWARENESS; BEHAVIORAL ethics; BUSINESS ethics
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 2023, Vol 188, Issue 4, p807
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10551-023-05510-0