Abusive supervision: A systematic review and fundamental rethink

Abusive supervision is conceptualized in a confused manner that conflates followers’ subjective evaluations of abuse with leaders’ behaviors. It is how conceptual confusion is reflected in and undermines dominant measurement tools. They identify and critique overreliance on cross-sectional survey-based studies and vignette experiments, which vary considerably in the extent to which they can evidence causal effects. And consider the fact that abusive supervision is a low base rate phenomenon.