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Come rain or come shine: supervisor behavior and employee job neglect

Leila Karimi (Services Management Program, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia)
Brad Gilbreath (Hasan School of Business, Colorado State University – Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, USA)
Tae-Yeol Kim (Management Department, China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, China)
Matthew J. Grawitch (School for Professional Studies, Saint Louis University, St Louis, Missouri, USA)

Leadership & Organization Development Journal

ISSN: 0143-7739

Article publication date: 29 April 2014

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which supervisor behavior is associated with employees’ job neglect.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper investigates the extent to which supervisor behavior is associated with employees’ job neglect.

Findings

Results from hierarchical regression analyses support the hypothesis that both positive and negative supervisor behaviors have significant effects on job neglect. Negative supervisor behavior was more strongly associated with job neglect than positive supervisor behavior.

Research limitations/implications

Changing the style of supervision might help to reduce job neglect of employees, benefitting the organization by reducing the associated costs of job neglect and counterproductive behavior.

Originality/value

The findings provide additional evidence for the important effects supervisors can have on employees. They also indicate that – in addition to studying abusive supervision – there is a need to consider the effects of a broad spectrum of supervisor behavior.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Erin Frew, Paul Bliese, Wayne Hochwarter, Roland Kidwell, and Jason Shaw for their assistance with this paper.

Citation

Karimi, L., Gilbreath, B., Kim, T.-Y. and J. Grawitch, M. (2014), "Come rain or come shine: supervisor behavior and employee job neglect", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 35 No. 3, pp. 210-225. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-05-2012-0066

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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