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| Abusive Supervision, Leader-member Exchange and Employees’ Workplace Deviant Behavior——the Moderating Role of Employee’s Identity ——the moderating role of employee’s identity |
| HUANG Li,CHEN Weizheng |
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Abstract This study distinguishes from the explanation of the relationship between abusive supervision and workplace deviant behavior from the views of social psychology, social comparison, and social identity. From the social exchange theory perspective, this study examines the role of leadership-member exchange as a mediator between abusive supervision and subordinates’ workplace deviant behaviors. We also analyze employees’ identity as a moderator between abusive supervision and subordinates’ workplace deviant behaviors. The results from 345 sets of subordinates and their immediate supervisors matching questionnaires showed: (1) there is a significantly positive relationship between abusive supervision and individual-orientated workplace deviant behavior, abusive supervision and organization-orientated workplace deviant behavior. (2) Leader-member exchange is a partial mediator between the relationship of abusive supervision and workplace deviant behaviors including individual-orientated and organization-orientated workplace deviant behaviors. (3) Employees’ identity moderates the relationship between abusive supervisors and two types of workplace deviant behaviors. Abusive supervisor has a stronger positive influence on two types of
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Received: 16 August 2013
Published: 24 February 2014
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Corresponding Authors:
HUANG Li
E-mail: huanglI0416@126.com
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2014, Vol. 
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