The Relation Between Supervisors’ Big Five Personality Traits and Employees’ Experiences of Abusive Supervision

Frontiers in Psychology

Jeroen Camps¹ 

关键词: abusive supervision;    FFM;    Big Five personality traits;    leadership;    perceived supervisor mistreatment;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00112

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The present study investigates the relation between supervisors’ personality traits and employees’ experiences of supervisory abuse, an area that – to date – remained largely unexplored in previous research. Field data collected from 103 supervisor-subordinate dyads showed that contrary to our expectations supervisors’ agreeableness and neuroticism were not significantly related to abusive supervision, nor were supervisors’ extraversion or openness to experience. Interestingly, however, our findings revealed a positive relation between supervisors’ conscientiousness and abusive supervision. That is, supervisors high in conscientiousness were more likely to be perceived as an abusive supervisor by their employees. Overall, our findings do suggest that supervisors’ Big Five personality traits explain only a limited amount of the variability in employees’ experiences of abusive supervision.

【 授权许可】

CC BY