Logo image
Back
Self‐protective reactions to peer abusive supervision: The moderating role of prevention focus and the mediating role of performance instrumentality
Journal article   Peer reviewed

Self‐protective reactions to peer abusive supervision: The moderating role of prevention focus and the mediating role of performance instrumentality

Ping Shao, Andrew Li and Mary Mawritz
Journal of organizational behavior, v 39(1), pp 12-25
Jan 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2206

Abstract

peer abusive supervision performance effort performance instrumentality prevention focus
Summary Across 3 studies, we apply a self‐protection perspective of observed mistreatment to examine a moderated mediation model on “when” and “why” third parties are motivated by peer abusive supervision. We hypothesize that prevention‐focused third parties will increase their performance effort as a response to peer abusive supervision, and this effect is mediated by performance instrumentality. In a field study of working adults (Study 1) and an experimental study that manipulated peer abusive supervision (Study 2), we found that peer abusive supervision interacted with third parties' prevention focus to predict their performance effort such that peer abuse was positively related to third parties' performance effort only for those high on prevention focus. Results were replicated in a second field study of working adults (Study 3). Further, we found support for the mediating effect of performance instrumentality. The theoretical and practical implications of our results are discussed.

Metrics

6 Record Views
46 citations in Web of Science
48 citations in Scopus

Details

InCites Highlights

Data related to this publication, from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool:

Collaboration types
Domestic collaboration
Web of Science research areas
Business
Management
Psychology, Applied
Logo image