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How Management Style Moderates The Relationship Between Abusive Supervision And Workplace Deviance: An Uncertainty Management Theory Perspective, Stefan Thau, Rebecca J. Bennett, Marie S. Mitchell, Mary Beth Marrs
How Management Style Moderates The Relationship Between Abusive Supervision And Workplace Deviance: An Uncertainty Management Theory Perspective, Stefan Thau, Rebecca J. Bennett, Marie S. Mitchell, Mary Beth Marrs
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
Based on uncertainty management theory [Lind, E. A., & Van den Bos, K., (2002). When fairness works: Toward a general theory of uncertainty management. In Staw, B. M., & Kramer, R. M. (Eds.), Research in organizational behavior (Vol. 24, pp. 181–223). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.], two studies tested whether a management style depicting situational uncertainty moderates the relationship between abusive supervision and workplace deviance. Study 1, using survey data from 379 subordinates of various industries, found that the positive relationship between abusive supervision and organizational deviance was stronger when authoritarian management style was low (high situational uncertainty) rather than high …