Abusive Supervision: New Understandings and Practical Implications

Abusive supervision, manifesting in nonphysical forms of hostility from supervisors toward subordinates (Tepper, 2000), has been found to cause serious harms to subordinates and organizations, such as diminishing subordinates’ well-being, proactive behaviors, and job performance (for reviews, see Mackey, Frieder, Brees, & Martinko, 2017; Martinko, Harvey, Brees, & Mackey, 2013; Tepper, 2007; Tepper, Simon, & Park, 2017). A number of theoretical...