THESIS
2014
vi, 43 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
Social nature of abuse has largely been understudied within abusive supervision literature.
This thesis sheds light on a coworker’s influence on the relationship between focal employee’s
perception of abusive supervision and workplace deviance. To capture this influence, I draw upon
social information processing theory (Salancik & Pfeffer, 1978), social learning theory (Bandura,
1973), and attribution theory (Heider, 1958; Weiner, 1986) to propose a coworker influence
model wherein coworker’s perceived abusive supervision and coworker’s workplace deviance
has multipath influence on employee workplace deviance. Results confirm the direct influence of
coworker’s perceived abusive supervision and coworker’s deviance on overall employee
workplace deviance. Furthermore, influence of...[
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Social nature of abuse has largely been understudied within abusive supervision literature.
This thesis sheds light on a coworker’s influence on the relationship between focal employee’s
perception of abusive supervision and workplace deviance. To capture this influence, I draw upon
social information processing theory (Salancik & Pfeffer, 1978), social learning theory (Bandura,
1973), and attribution theory (Heider, 1958; Weiner, 1986) to propose a coworker influence
model wherein coworker’s perceived abusive supervision and coworker’s workplace deviance
has multipath influence on employee workplace deviance. Results confirm the direct influence of
coworker’s perceived abusive supervision and coworker’s deviance on overall employee
workplace deviance. Furthermore, influence of coworker’s experience of abusive supervision and
coworker’s workplace deviance on employees’ workplace deviance moderates the association
between employee’s direct experience of abusive supervision and workplace deviance. A two-wave
field survey designed with 527 supervisor-employee-coworker triads provided the
empirical evidence for the proposed model. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Keywords: abusive supervision, workplace deviance, interpersonal deviance, organizational
deviance, information processing theory, social learning theory, attribution theory
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