Keywords
Abusive supervision, prosocial behavior, justice climate
Abstract
This dissertation examines what happens when employees witness supervisory abuse in the workplace. In particular, it explores whether-and when-employees will respond to witnessing supervisory abuse of a coworker by engaging in prosocial actions aimed at benefitting the target of abuse. In doing so, it extends work on abusive supervision. Traditionally, abusive supervision research has focused on the impact of abuse on the victim him/herself. However, this work explores the impact of abusive supervision on third party observers. In addition, because abusive supervision represents a form of organizational injustice, this dissertation extends both work on abusive supervision and third party reactions to injustice by considering the positive, prosocial reactions abuse might trigger in employees.
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Graduation Date
2012
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Schminke, Marshall
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
College
College of Business Administration
Degree Program
Business Administration; Management
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0004210
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0004210
Language
English
Release Date
May 2013
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Doctoral Dissertation (Open Access)
Subjects
Business Administration -- Dissertations, Academic;Dissertations, Academic -- Business Administration
STARS Citation
Priesemuth, Manuela, "Stand up and Speak up: Employees' Prosocial Reactions to Observed Abusive Supervision" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4683.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4683