How and when does followers’ upward hostile behavior contribute to the emergence of abusive supervision? Although from a normative or ethical point of view, supervisors should refrain from displaying abusive supervision, in line with a social exchange perspective, we argue that abusive...

Purpose – In a replication of a multi-source study by Xu et al. , the authors examined whether leader-member exchange (LMX) mediates the relationship between abusive supervision and employee work behaviors, more specifically task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors toward the...

This study explores causes of conflicts and conflict management in change initiatives in Tanzanian universities. Top managers, deans and academic staff (N=56) in three universities were interviewed. The findings reveal that directive leadership processes, lack of needs fulfillment and poor...

In a survey with 151 respondents we tested our expectations . Results show that leaders’ forcing third party behavior amplifies the negative effects of different types of conflict on well-being. No such moderator effects were found for problem solving and avoiding behavior with different kind...