Curve effect of abusive supervision on safety performance: moderating role of trust in leadership

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn 1003-3033.2021.11.001

Abstract

Abstract: In order to further explore the relationship between abusive supervision and safety performance, break the barrier of existing research which only focuses on linear effect between the two so as to better improve employee safety performance, with 258 employees in high-risk industries as research object, curvilinear effect of abusive supervision on safety performance and boundary effect of trust in leadership were empirically examined based on activation theory. The results show that abusive supervision has an inverted U-shaped effect on safety performance, while trust in leadership regulates relationship between them, that is, the inverted U-shaped relationship between them only exists under condition of high level of trust in leadership. Effectively controlling degree of abusive supervision and improving trust in leadership can give full play to the positive role of abusive management and improve safety performance.

Key words: abusive supervision, safety performance, trust in leadership, curve effect, inverted U-shaped

CLC Number:

X915.2

FENG Yajuan, XING Zhongchao. Curve effect of abusive supervision on safety performance: moderating role of trust in leadership[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2021, 31(11): 1-8.

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