RT Article
T1 Employee humor can shield them from abusive supervision
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 186
IS 2
SP 407
OP 424
A1 Huang, Mingpeng
A1 Ju, Dong
A1 Yam, Kai Chi
A1 Liu, Shengming
A1 Qin, Xin
A1 Tian, Guangdi
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1855026449
AB Drawing upon conservation of resources theory, we develop and test a theoretical model that specifies how and when employee humor toward leaders affects leader abusive supervision. We propose that employee humor is negatively associated with leader abusive supervision via leader relational energy. Furthermore, the negative indirect relationship between employee humor and leader abusive supervision via leader relational energy is stronger for female leaders than for male leaders. An experiment and a multi-wave, multi-source field study provide substantial support for our hypotheses. Our findings contribute to the abusive supervision literature by identifying employee humor as a safe and effective bottom-up approach to prevent leader abusive supervision.
K1 Abusive supervision
K1 Conservation of resources theory
K1 Employee humor
K1 Gender
K1 Relational energy
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-022-05208-9