Leaders' Work Demands and Abusive Supervision: A Self-Verification Perspective

Dr Zhang, Yiwen   (Principal Investigator (PI))

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2015-10-01

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Leaders' Work Demands and Abusive Supervision: A Self-Verification Perspective

Abusive Supervision, Leader-Member Exchange, Organizational Justice, Self-Verification, Work Demands

Management

Business Studies (B)

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Early Career Scheme (ECS)

2015

Completed

1) To develop and test theory with regard to how leaders' challenge and hindrance work demands may differentially affect abusive supervision through leaders' overall justice judgments of the organizations. 2) To examine the moderating role of leaders' self-esteem in the overall relationships between leaders' work demands and abusive supervision based on the self-verification theory. 3) To examine the specific moderating role of leaders' self-esteem in two stages: (1) how leaders' challenge and hindrance demands facilitate overall justice judgments; and (2) how overall justice judgments lead to abusive supervision. 4) To develop and test theory with regard to how leaders' self-esteem may account for the individual difference in followers' perceptions of abusive supervision through a three-way interaction among leaders' self-esteem, overall justice judgments, and leaders' evaluation of their leader-member exchange relationships with each follower.