Leader mistreatment, employee hostility, and deviant behaviors: Integrating self-uncertainty and thwarted needs perspectives on deviance
By David M. Mayer, Stefan Thau, K. Workman, M. Dijke, David de Cremer. 2012
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Integrating self-uncertainty management and thwarted needs perspectives on leader mistreatment and workplace deviance, we examine when and why leader mistreatment is associated with workplace deviance. We propose that competence uncertainty strengthens the relationship between leader mistreatment and workplace deviance and that hostility mediates this interactive effect. Four field studies and one experiment support the hypotheses. The first two studies provide evidence for the predicted interaction between leader mistreatment and competence uncertainty, and the next three studies demonstrate that hostility mediates this interactive effect. We discuss an extended social exchange explanation of workplace deviance and highlight the psychological interplay between motives, cognition, and affect in reciprocating leader mistreatment.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology
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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
In Social Psychology
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- Antecedents of Abusive Supervision: a Meta-analytic Review (2015, unknown): “Typically, the correlations between supervisors’ and subordinates’ demographic characteristics and abusive supervision are relatively low (Mayer et al. 2012).”
- Extreme managers, extreme workplaces: Capitalism, organizations and corporate psychopaths (2015, result): “Such competence uncertainty has been associated with workplace deviance and leader mistreatment (Mayer et al., 2012), and this corresponds with the current findings.”