Role ambiguity and economic hardship as the moderators of the relation between abusive supervision and job burnout : An Application of uncertainty management theory

Based on uncertainty management theory (Lind & Van den Bos, 2002; Van den Bos & Lind, 2002), we explored whether uncertainty in the workplace (role ambiguity) as well as off the workplace (economic hardship) moderates the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates' job burnout. Using survey method, we obtained 458 valid responses from employees in a transportation company in Taiwan. The results of moderated hierarchical regression showed that both role ambiguity and economic hardship induce the positive relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates' job burnout. Abusive supervision related more strongly to job burnout when subordinates perceived higher role ambiguity (higher uncertainty) or higher economic hardship (higher uncertainty). As predicted, high uncertainty increases subordinates' attentions to the injustice from abusive supervision and thus strengthens the negative psychological consequences of abusive supervision, regardless of whether the source of uncertainty corresponds to the source of (in)justice perception.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:146

Enthalten in:

The Journal of general psychology - 146(2019), 4 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 365-390

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wu, Tsung-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Chung, Pei Fang [VerfasserIn]
Liao, Hung-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Pei-Yi [VerfasserIn]
Yeh, Ying-Jung [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Abusive supervision
Economic hardship
Job burnout
Journal Article
Role ambiguity
Uncertainty management theory

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Date Completed 05.02.2020

Date Revised 05.02.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/00221309.2019.1585323

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM295770287