Abusive supervision and emotional exhaustion: the moderating role of power distance orientation and the mediating role of interaction avoidance

While abusive supervision is shown to have stress‐related effects on abused subordinates, relatively little is known about the factors capable of mitigating these negative effects and their longer term consequences. Drawing on the 1984 transactional model of stress and coping of Lazarus and Folkman, we predicted that subordinates’ power distance orientation moderates the positive relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates’...