Losing sleep: Examining the cascading effects of supervisors' experience of injustice on subordinates' psychological health

Rafferty, Alannah; Restubog, Simon; Jimmieson, Nerina L.

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Losing sleep: Examining the cascading effects of supervisors' experience of injustice on subordinates' psychological health

Date

2010

Authors

Rafferty, Alannah

Restubog, Simon

Jimmieson, Nerina L.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

In this paper, we identify two types of injustice as antecedents of abusive supervision and ultimately of subordinate psychological distress and insomnia. We examine distributive justice (an individual's evaluation of their input to output ratio compared