Abusive supervision and employee emotional exhaustion: Dispositional antecedents and boundaries

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-169

  Wu, Tsung Yu ^a   Changya Hu, ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision; Core self evaluations; Emotional exhaustion; Perceived coworker support; Susceptibility to emotional contagion

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349127217     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601108331217     Document Type: Article

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