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Abusive supervision and subordinate supervisor-directed deviance: The moderating role of traditional values and the mediating role of revenge cognitions
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Abusive supervision and subordinate supervisor-directed deviance: The moderating role of traditional values and the mediating role of revenge cognitions

Jun Liu, Ho Kwong Kwan, Long-zeng Wu and Weiku Wu
Journal of occupational and organizational psychology, v 83(4), pp 835-856
01 Dec 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1348/096317909X485216

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Business & Economics Management Psychology Psychology, Applied Social Sciences
This study examined the link between abusive supervision and subordinate supervisor-directed deviance by focusing on the moderating role of traditionality and the mediating role of revenge cognitions directed towards supervisors. The results of analysing 283 supervisor subordinate dyads in six private electronic companies and 222 supervisor subordinate dyads in two state-owned oil and gas companies in the People's Republic of China showed that abusive supervision was positively related to revenge cognitions directed towards supervisors and to supervisor-directed deviance. In addition, traditionality moderated the above relationships such that they were stronger among low traditionalists than among high ones, while revenge cognitions mediated the main effect of abusive supervision and the interactive effect of abusive supervision and traditionality on supervisor-directed deviance.

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