The Influence of Abusive Supervision on Employee Creativity with the Effects of Traditionality

Based on data from a sample of 532 employees and 89 managers from two large scale private enterprises in Jiangsu province,this paper investigated the moderating effect of employee traditionality and mediating effect of organizational forgiveness climate on the relationship between abusive supervision and employee creativity. Results showed that employee traditionality moderated the relationship of abusive supervision on employee creativity,and the effect was partially mediated by organizational forgiveness climate.