Title

Understanding Internal, External, And Relational Attributions For Abusive Supervision

Keywords

Abusive supervision; Aggression; Attributions; Citizenship; Justice

Abstract

Despite abundant research on the consequences of perceived abusive supervision, less is known about how employees develop perceptions of supervisory abuse. Across two studies, we integrate classic and recent theoretical work on attributions to understand the causal explanations underlying employee perceptions of and reactions to abusive supervision. In the first study, we develop measures of internal, external, and relational attributions for perceived supervisor abuse. In the second study, we demonstrate that internal and external attributions are indirectly related to aggressive and citizenship behaviors through employees' perceptions of interactional justice. Theoretical and practical implications are also discussed. © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volume

35

Issue

6

Number of Pages

871-891

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1002/job.1939

Socpus ID

84905030893 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84905030893

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