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Shame as an Alternate Mechanism for the Abusive Supervision-Performance Relation and the Role of Power Distance Values

Daniels, Michael A.

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Industrial-Organizational.
Research on workplace mistreatment indicates that abusive supervision negatively relates to employee-related criteria through perceived injustice. The consensus in the literature is that this effect is attenuated for employees who have a higher power distance orientation because they perceive abusive supervision to be more normative and legitimate. However, drawing from the group value model, the present study tests the experience of shame as an alternate mechanism that explains the effects of abusive supervision. In particular, the negative effect of abusive supervision on employee outcomes (performance and organizational citizenship behaviors) through the experience of shame is proposed to be stronger for subordinates with higher power distance values because of the relatively maladaptive way that these individuals cope with feelings of shame. Using a multi-wave survey of 211 matched supervisor-subordinate dyads, results indicate that the negative indirect effect of abusive supervision on employee performance through experienced shame is stronger for recipients with a high power distance orientation. This investigation contributes to the existing literature by testing an affective pathway by which abusive supervision relates to employee job performance and challenges the notion that high power distance followers are necessarily shielded from the negative effects of abusive leaders.
Scott Highhouse (Advisor)
Michael Zickar (Committee Member)
Yiwei Chen (Committee Member)
Dwayne Gremler (Committee Member)
66 p.

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  • Daniels, M. A. (2015). Shame as an Alternate Mechanism for the Abusive Supervision-Performance Relation and the Role of Power Distance Values [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1436002331

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Daniels, Michael. Shame as an Alternate Mechanism for the Abusive Supervision-Performance Relation and the Role of Power Distance Values. 2015. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1436002331.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Daniels, Michael. "Shame as an Alternate Mechanism for the Abusive Supervision-Performance Relation and the Role of Power Distance Values." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1436002331

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)