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W. Z. Zou
10.4236/ojbm.2020.82043 714
Open Journal of Business and Management
In the term of theoretical research on abusive supervision, researchers gener-
ally agree with the expression of the concept of abusive supervision by Tepper
[1], that is, abusive supervision is a kind of destructive leadership behaviors ex-
isting in various organizations, which refers to a subordinate’s perception of
linguistic or non-verbal hostile behavior that is consistently displayed by a su-
pervisor, but does not include physical contact. Later, research on various as-
pects of abusive supervision has gradually developed and enriched, from the de-
finition of abusive supervision to the measurement, causes, consequences, and
mechanisms of abusive supervision, and then to its response mechanism and
certain degree of positive effect. The whole research process of abusive supervi-
sion is continuously deepening and expanding.
Based on the related research on the theory of abusive supervision, this paper
reviews the relevant literature, summarizes the research results and characteris-
tics of abusive supervision, and finds its future research space, in order to im-
prove the research systems of abusive supervision and address abusive supervi-
sion issues in organizations in practice. On the whole, this paper summarizes the
main research content, research methods, research deficiencies, and research
prospects of abusive supervision. At present, many researches focus on the rela-
tionship between abusive supervision and the relevant characteristics of em-
ployees. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to analyze the two aspects of the
impact of abusive supervision on employees and coping methods of abusive su-
pervision, so as to roughly grasp the key points and characteristics of each study,
and to summarize and evaluate. In content, this paper summarizes the relevant
literatures on the impact and coping methods of abusive supervision on em-
ployees and puts forward the specific research direction in the future. The rest of
this article is organized as follows: the second section mainly reviews and sum-
marizes the researches on the impact of abusive supervision on employees; the
third section mainly reviews and summarizes the researches on the coping me-
thods of abusive supervision; the fourth section mainly reviews and summarizes
the main research methods of related literature; the fifth section mainly summa-
rizes the conclusions, main contributions of this paper and the prospects of fu-
ture research.
2. Research on the Impact of Abusive Supervision
on Employees
In the term of research on the impact of abusive supervision, in general, many
studies have explored the interrelationship of abusive supervision and em-
ployee-related factors at the employee level. In summary, these studies basically
analyze the interrelationships between abusive supervision and employee inno-
vation and performance, employee satisfaction and emotion, employee know-
ledge sharing, employee deviance or anti-productive behavior, employee turno-
ver intentions. On this basis, researchers not only studied the negative impact of
abusive supervision on employees, but also began to pay more attention to the
positive impact of abusive supervision.
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