... and a negative indirect effect on abusive supervision through positive affective experience. In other words, subordinates’ competence advantage exerts a double-edged sword effect on abusive supervision. Furthermore, supervisor-subordinate guanxi moderates both of these two indirect relationships. Originality...

... of hindrance stress and the moderating role of supervisor–subordinate guanxi. Design/methodology/approach By using 324 samples collected from multiple companies in southeast China, the model is tested through multiple linear hierarchical regressions, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor...

... the strength of the mediated relationships between a supervisor’s trust in the subordinate and the subordinate’s deference to supervisor via supervisor–subordinate guanxi. Furthermore, the direct interaction effect of a supervisor’s trust and PM influenced the subordinate’s deference to supervisor only when...