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Title: Coping with Abusive Supervision: Mechanisms of Personal Factors and Political Skill
Source: International Conference on Engineering and Business Management 2012(Part 1 Enterprise Operation and Management（1）) (pp 493-500)
Author(s): Fengzhi Bai, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
Xujie Guo, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
Xi Chen, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
Yongchang Deng, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
Ying Dong, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
Jun Liu, School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
Abstract: Abusive supervision is a relatively new concept in the area of human resources management. Existing studies on abusive supervision mainly focus on its effect on employees and how employees cope with abusive supervision. Few studies concern about which factors influence the process of employees coping with abusive supervision. Sine the literature has revealed that politically skilled subordinates employing ingratiation behavior to cope with abusive supervisors will result in less damage, the current study is designed to help understand the moderating roles of subordinate gender and personality traits in coping with abusive supervision. Questionnaire survey on employees and their supervisors in a cashmere products company located in Erdos, Inner Mongoliais conducted to examine the model. Analyses of a matched sample including 169 employees show that: (1) political skill help subordinates deal with abusive supervision in the organizational context; comparing to male, female subordinates using political skills to cope with abusive supervision will result in much less damage; (2) subordinates with higher adaptability and openness personalities using political skills to cope with abusive supervision will result in less damage.
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