Predicting Abusive Supervision

Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 92-108

  Hershcovis, M Sandy ^a   Rafferty, Alannah E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision, process model; Antecedents of abusive supervision; Definitional issues; Display of hostile verbal nonverbal behaviors; Exacerbating factors; Perpetrator target relationship; Predicting abusive supervision; Social interactionist approach; Victim precipitation; Workplace aggression, meta analytic reviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886231294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119942849.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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