Abusive Supervision, Subordinate Interactional (In) justice Perceptions, and Work Performance: The Moderating Roles of Personality Trait, Leader Behavior, and Power Distance

Given the pervasiveness of subordinate-reported abuse at workplace researchers, has been seen it as significant phenomena for today’s organizations. Despite, an impressive amount of research in the area there is a limited... [ view full abstract ]

Given the pervasiveness of subordinate-reported abuse at workplace researchers, has been seen it as significant phenomena for today’s organizations. Despite, an impressive amount of research in the area there is a limited study that acknowledges subordinate interactional perception. Based on an extensive review of existing studies and theoretical foundation, the paper presents a theoretical framework on how subordinate perceives the existence of abusive behavior and the way they evaluate it form in (justice) perspective which has a spillover effect on work performance. A personality trait, leadership, orientation and cultural value also accounted as moderation of mediation in the model. This paper also tentatively identifies several issues in abusive behavior research that need attention for implication. For researchers, the study provides a comprehensive review of previous Abusive leadership studies and a roadmap for future research. By focusing on power distance implication to African context also discussed.