Blaming the organization for abusive supervision: The roles of perceived organizational support and supervisor's organizational embodiment

Shoss, Mindy; Eisenberger, Robert; Restubog, Simon; Zagenczyk, Thomas J.

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Blaming the organization for abusive supervision: The roles of perceived organizational support and supervisor's organizational embodiment

Date

2012

Authors

Shoss, Mindy

Eisenberger, Robert

Restubog, Simon

Zagenczyk, Thomas J.

Publisher

American Psychological Association

Abstract

Why do employees who experience abusive supervision retaliate against the organization? We apply organizational support theory to propose that employees hold the organization partly responsible for abusive supervision. Depending on the extent to which emp