Abusive supervision: subordinate personality or supervisor behavior?

摘要

Purposen – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether employees’ personalities are associated with their perceptions of abusive supervision. nDesign/methodology/approachn – In total, 756 working adults provided data. Subjects’ began by taking personality assessments and then received a performance evaluation via a video role-play. Subjects then provided their perceptions of how abusive the supervisor was. The data were analyzed with regression analysis. nFindingsn – The results illustrated that respondents’ hostile attribution styles, negative affectivity, trait anger, and entitlement were positively and significantly associated with perceptions of abusive supervision. nResearch limitations/implicationsn – The results imply that judgments of supervisory abuse and interventions to ameliorate the negative consequences associated with abusive supervision should consider subordinates’ characteristics. nOriginality/valuen – This study controlled supervisor behavior via a video vignette to assess how multiple subordinates’ perceive the same supervisor behavior. This study contributes to a more complete understanding of how personality is associated with perceptions of abusive supervision.