Mechanism of Supervisors' Off-job Experience on Abusive Supervision

Abstract

Abstract: Most researches have focused on how abusive supervision can affect their employees' work behaviors rather than on antecedents of abusive supervision. Few studies have examined the impact of supervisors' experience in areas outside the workplace on abusive supervision. Based on the basic framework of ego depletion theory, this study aims to examine the influencing mechanism of supervisors' off-job experience on abusive supervision and the moderation mechanism of supervisor regulation of emotion. We match 118 supervisors and 669 employees as empirical samples to test the hypothesized model. The results indicate that:(1) supervisor off-job hassles are positively related to ego depletion and supervisor off-job relaxation is negatively related to ego depletion; (2) ego depletion mediates the relationship between off-job hassles and abusive supervision and the relationship between off-job relaxation and abusive supervision; (3) regulation of emotion not only negatively moderates the relationship between off-job hassles and abusive supervision, but also negatively moderates the indirect effect of the relationship between off-job hassles and abusive supervision; (4) regulation of emotion not only negatively moderates the relationship between off-job relaxation and abusive supervision, but also negatively moderates the indirect effect of the relationship between off-job relaxation and abusive supervision.

Key words: supervisor off-job hassles, supervisor off-job relaxation, ego depletion, abusive supervision, regulation of emotion

Wu Wenbing, Deng Hui, Wu Wen, Ni Dan, Zhang Yihua. Mechanism of Supervisors' Off-job Experience on Abusive Supervision[J]. Management Review, 2021, 33(7): 227-236.

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