The Relationships Between Attribution Styles, LMX, and Perceptions of Abusive Supervision

Prior abusive supervision research focuses on subordinates’ perceptions of abusive supervision. Recent research suggests that a variety of factors may be related to these perceptions, including subordinates’ self-esteem, personality traits, and negative affectivity, as well as supervisors’ perceptio...

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Published in:Journal of leadership & organizational studies 2012-11, Vol.19 (4), p.397-406
Main Authors: Martinko, Mark J., Sikora, David, Harvey, Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Perceptions
Personality traits
Self esteem
Subordinates
Supervision
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Summary:Prior abusive supervision research focuses on subordinates’ perceptions of abusive supervision. Recent research suggests that a variety of factors may be related to these perceptions, including subordinates’ self-esteem, personality traits, and negative affectivity, as well as supervisors’ perceptions of justice and breaches of psychological contracts. In this article, the authors propose and argue that a significant proportion of the variance in members’ perceptions of abuse by their leaders can be explained by the interactions of leaders’ and members’ attribution styles and that abuse perceptions may be considered to be a subset of subordinates’ perceptions of the quality of their leader–member exchange relationships. The authors also make the case that attribution styles affect the likelihood of abusive supervisory behavior as well as the perception of such behaviors.
ISSN:1548-0518
1939-7089
DOI:10.1177/1548051811435791