Lazaridis School of Business and Economics.
Department of Psychology.
J Occup Health Psychol. 2022 Feb;27(1):37-52. doi: 10.1037/ocp0000291. Epub 2021 Jul 22.
Subordinates who are abused by a supervisor tend to experience violated perceptions of interpersonal justice and deteriorated well-being. One way in which they may seek to cope with these consequences is by engaging in retaliatory behaviors intended to "get back" at their supervisor and even the score. Based on research suggesting that acts of retaliation can restore perceptions of justice, we propose a model whereby retaliation alleviates the effect of abusive supervision on subordinate well-being by restoring subordinates' interpersonal justice perceptions. In two studies, using multiwave (Study 1) and time-lagged (Study 2) designs, we found general support for our predictions, even when controlling for the alternative mechanism of victim identity and subordinates' baseline well-being. These results suggest that retaliation reduces the harmful consequences of supervisory abuse on well-being not only in the short term but also in the long run. Theoretical and practical implications surrounding this increased understanding of the effectiveness of retaliation as a strategy for coping with the effects of abusive supervision over time are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
下属受到主管的虐待往往会感到人际公正受到侵犯，幸福感下降。他们可能会通过报复行为来应对这些后果，旨在“报复”他们的主管，甚至是为了挽回面子。基于报复行为可以恢复公正感的研究，我们提出了一个模型，即报复通过恢复下属的人际公正感来减轻虐待性监督对下属幸福感的影响。在两项研究中，我们使用多波（研究 1）和时间滞后（研究 2）设计，即使在控制了替代机制——受害者身份和下属的基线幸福感，也普遍支持了我们的预测。这些结果表明，报复不仅在短期内，而且在长期内都能减轻监督虐待对幸福感的有害影响。本文围绕着随着时间的推移，报复作为应对虐待性监督影响的策略的有效性的理解的增加，讨论了理论和实践方面的意义。
