...Evgeniya Balabanova Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify previously unexamined predictors of abusive supervision (AS) that stem from socio-economic dependency of employees upon their direct supervisors. Design/methodology/approach Using social exchange theory (SET) as framework...

... behaviour instigates abuse at the workplace. In particular, the authors argue that subordinate gossip behaviour instils in supervisors a thought of revenge towards that subordinate, which, in turn, leads to abusive supervision. Specifically, this hypothesised relationship is augmented when the supervisor...

...Yucheng Zhang; Stephen J. Frenkel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how part-time waiters perceive and respond to abusive supervision by the owner-manager of a small restaurant. Design/methodology/approach An ethnographic approach was used to collect data. One of the authors...