Author(s)

Ying Pan

School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

Since the twentieth century, the study of the theory of leadership qualities has been approaching one hundred years. Recently, abuse supervision has caused the focus of researchers in organizational behavior. As a typical representative of disruptive leadership, abusive supervision has become an important topic in the study of leadership behavior. Abusive supervision refers to the sustained verbal or non-verbal hostility committed by the supervisor to the subordinates but does not include the violation of the physical contact class. Although some studies have explored the mechanism of abusive supervision in detail, abusive supervision still exists in the organization. By analyzing the personality traits of abusive leaders and their family environment, the researchers explained why abusive leaders tended to abuse their subordinates from the perspective of social exchange and social studies. This interpretation stays at the general level, and it is difficult to give a reasonable explanation of the reasons why leaders are abusive to specific individual employees. This article summarizes the foreign literature, integrates the research on the mechanism of abusive supervision based on individual level, and then puts forward the future prospect combined with the domestic research.

Abusive Supervision, Producing Mechanism, Employees

Pan, Y. (2019) Research on the Producing Mechanism of Abusive Supervision Based on Employees and Its Future Prospect. Open Journal of Business and Management, 7, 1880-1890. doi: 10.4236/ojbm.2019.74129.