The Relation Between Supervisors' Big Five Personality Traits and Employees' Experiences of Abusive Supervision.
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Authors
Camps, Jeroen
Stouten, Jeroen
Euwema, Martin
Publication Date
2016Journal Title
Front Psychol
ISSN
1664-1078
Publisher
Frontiers Media SA
Volume
7
Issue
112
Language
English
Type
Article
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Camps, J., Stouten, J., & Euwema, M. (2016). The Relation Between Supervisors' Big Five Personality Traits and Employees' Experiences of Abusive Supervision.. Front Psychol, 7 (112) https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00112
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This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Frontiers via http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00112
Abstract
The present study investigates the relation between supervisors' personality traits and employees' experiences of supervisory abuse, an area that - to date - remained largely unexplored in previous research. Field data collected from 103 supervisor-subordinate dyads showed that contrary to our expectations supervisors' agreeableness and neuroticism were not significantly related to abusive supervision, nor were supervisors' extraversion or openness to experience. Interestingly, however, our findings revealed a positive relation between supervisors' conscientiousness and abusive supervision. That is, supervisors high in conscientiousness were more likely to be perceived as an abusive supervisor by their employees. Overall, our findings do suggest that supervisors' Big Five personality traits explain only a limited amount of the variability in employees' experiences of abusive supervision.
Sponsorship
Research funded by a Ph.D. grant of the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT). The first author gratefully acknowledges the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT) for providing this grant.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00112
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254825
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Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales
Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/
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