Abusive supervision and organizational citizenship behaviors: An examination of potential boundary conditions: Working paper series--09-11

This study focuses on the boundary conditions of the relationship between abusive supervision and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). Previous research has shown that employees reciprocate for abusive supervision by withholding discretionary OCBs (for a full review, see Tepper, 2007). This work contributes to the abusive supervision research by adding two important moderating variables, namely dyadic duration and satisfaction with pay. Results indicate that the negative relationship between abusive supervision and OCBs is more pronounced when employees have been supervised by a particular manager for a longer period of time and when employees are less satisfied with their compensation.