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- Title
Exploring Supervisor's Power Distance Orientation in Service Sector: Understanding How it affect Employee Morale via Ego Depletion and Abusive Supervision.
- Authors
Fatima, Noureen; Bashir, Sajid
- Abstract
The aim of this article is to explore critical paradoxes related to abusive supervision in organizations, which is divided into two types: impulsive abusive supervision and strategic abusive supervision. After validating these types of abusive supervision empirically, we also investigate the impact at the individual level, i.e., employee morale. Drawing from ego depletion theory, our theoretical extension includes a serial mediation model of supervisor'spower distance orientation (PDO) as a predictor of abusive supervision. We argue that supervisor PDO influences them to enact strategic abusive behaviors via less ego depletion and these abusive behaviors ultimately help to boost employee morale. Likewise, the explored predictor influences supervisors to enact impulsive abusive behaviors due to high ego depletion, and these abusive behaviors ultimately result in decreased employee morale. We collected the data through the survey based lagged design by using a purposive sampling technique and M plus for multilevel analysis. Using a sample of 541 supervisor-subordinate dyads, our study supports the indirect effects of PDO on abusive supervisor behaviors and authenticates the types of abusive supervision and the impact on the morale of subordinates, also received support for serial mediated paths. Furthermore, our study opens new avenues for research and discusses practical implications for various work settings.
- Subjects
SUPERVISORS; PERSONNEL management; JOB performance; EMPLOYEE morale; EGO (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of Managerial Sciences, 2017, Vol 11, p529
- ISSN
1992-4364
- Publication type
Article