ScholarOne - How proactive personality moderates the impact of abusive
supervision on job performance: explanations from the resource
acquisition mechanism
Abstract
Although many studies have investigated the moderating effect of
boundary conditions on the relationship between abusive supervision and
outcome variables, existing research findings indicate who copes
effectively with abusive supervision but they do not tell us what they
do that works. Using a sample of 305 supervisor-subordinate dyads in a
two-wave survey, this study adopted a hierarchical regression analysis
to test the hypotheses. The results show that proactive personality
negatively moderates the negative relationship between abusive
supervision and job performance. The moderating effect of proactive
personality between abusive supervision and job performance was mediated
by job crafting (within of workplace) and leisure activity (outside of
workplace). The study helps to understand the moderating mechanism of
boundary conditions in the relationship between abusive supervision and
job performance, also understand the diversity of transmission
mechanisms involved.