HIGH PERFORMANCE AND ABUSIVE SUPERVISION: COMPARISON BETWEEN ORGANIC AND MECHANISTIC WORK STRUCTURES

Individuals are the intellectual capital of an organization and the driving force of a company. It is their treatment which is of the prime importance that leads to their retention for long time. Thus, management should focus on improving the relationships between managers and their respective subor...

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Published in:Journal of Business Strategies (Karachi) 2018-12, Vol.12 (2), p.65
Main Author: Usmani, Sania
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aggressiveness
Analysis
Behavior
Emotional abuse
Employee morale
Employees
Hypotheses
Management styles
Mediation
Occupational psychology
Organizations
Stress (Psychology)
Subordinates
Supervision
Supervisors
Threats
Victimization
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Summary:Individuals are the intellectual capital of an organization and the driving force of a company. It is their treatment which is of the prime importance that leads to their retention for long time. Thus, management should focus on improving the relationships between managers and their respective subordinates. This research investigates the factors which lead to abusive behavior of managers. One such factor is the high performance of subordinates which posits a threat to their hierarchy, thus managers involve in abuse. Furthering the study, the role of mechanistic and organic work structures has also been measured. This study was carried out in Karachi, Pakistan and a comparison was made between the mechanistic work structure of a government agency and organic structure of a software house. Total of sixty employees and their respective supervisors were taken as sample of the study. It was found that organic structures are more conducive for abuse as compared to mechanistic structures, where managers are socially dominant and exert power over resources. From this study the human resource professionals can gain insight into the effect of work structures on employees’ performance. It is important for organizations to highlight and identify abuse even if it is subtle or done indirectly by the supervisors for the wellbeing of employees and goodwill of companies. The paper corroborates results from previous studies. A novelty in the study is its attempt to use the work structure as a moderator and the findings highlight the likely impact of organic versus mechanistic structures which have not been addressed previously.
ISSN:1993-5765
1993-5765