Abusive supervision and workload demands from supervisors: exploring two types of supervisor-related stressors and their association with strain.
Our study aimed to identify two types of stressors from supervisors: abusive supervision (AS) and workload demands from supervisors (WDS). AS reflects the relationship dimension of supervisor-related stressors, and WDS reflects the task dimension of supervisor-related stressors. In Study 1, we attempted to distinguish between AS and WDS. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that AS and WDS are two distinct dimensions of supervisor-related stressors. In Study 2, we utilized job demands-resources model and investigated whether AS and WDS can uniquely predict subordinates' emotional exhaustion (EE). We also explored whether perceived job characteristics (PJCs) have differential moderating effects on the relationships between the two dimensions of supervisor-related stressors (AS and WDS) and EE. Consistent with our predictions, the results showed that both AS and WDS have incremental predictive effects on EE after controlling for the effect of the other. The results also revealed that PJCs weaken the WDS-EE relationship, not the AS-EE relationship. We discussed the theoretical and practical implications at the end.
['Wu|Tsung-Yu|TY|', 'Hu|Changya|C|', 'Yang|Chun-Chi|CC|']
D000328:Adult D004644:Emotions D004651:Employment D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical D005221:Fatigue D005260:Female D006801:Humans D007398:Interpersonal Relations D007857:Leadership D008297:Male D008960:Models, Psychological D015279:Organizational Culture D013315:Stress, Psychological D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires D013624:Taiwan D014177:Translations D016526:Workload
abusive supervision workload demands from supervisors emotional exhaustion perceived job characteristics