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Good Intentions Go Awry: Investigation Of Unhelpful Supportive Leadership, Cheryl E. Gray
Good Intentions Go Awry: Investigation Of Unhelpful Supportive Leadership, Cheryl E. Gray
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In studies of the dark side of leadership, leaders are often depicted as bad people who engage in abusive behaviors. While some leaders have self-serving motives and engage in cruel behaviors, negative leadership outcomes are not limited to abusive supervisors. This research casts light on an understudied form of negative leadership: unhelpful supportive leadership. Unhelpful supportive leadership characterizes leaders who perform supportive acts that the recipient believes were intended to benefit them but are perceived as unhelpful or harmful. Results of two quantitative survey studies (Study 1: N = 1,257 employees; Study 2: N = 161 employee-supervisor dyads) demonstrate that …
You’Re Not Helping: Unhelpful Workplace Social Support As A Job Stressor, Cheryl E. Gray
You’Re Not Helping: Unhelpful Workplace Social Support As A Job Stressor, Cheryl E. Gray
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
While support is generally a helpful resource for employees, support can also serve as a job stressor. Unhelpful workplace social support (UWSS) is any action taken by a supervisor and/or colleague that is intended to benefit another worker but is perceived as unhelpful or harmful by the recipient. A series of three studies identified types of UWSS, developed a measure of UWSS, and established a nomological network of variables related to UWSS. In Study 1, critical incidents were collected from 116 employees, and a content analysis revealed 11 distinct categories of UWSS. A measure of UWSS was developed in Study …