Does taking the good with the bad make things worse? How abusive supervision and leader-member exchange interact to impact need satisfaction and organizational deviance

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-52

  Lian, Huiwen ^a   Lance Ferris, D ^b   Brown, Douglas J ^c  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision; Leader member exchange; Mixed relationships; Organizational deviance; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855708321     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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