Sentence examples for abusive supervisors from inspiring English sources

Given these findings, we offer the following advice for dealing with abusive supervisors.

Guard members with abusive supervisors were more likely to regard the more positive actions as not being part of their job, the study found.

Abusive supervisors come in many flavors, including the insecure, the overmatched and the garden-variety sadist who picks on underlings solely for the pleasure of exercising power.

"I think companies have to create cultures where abusive supervisors are not acceptable, and they have to implement policies for employees to report being bullied," she said.

"Abusive supervisors didn't respond to followers being positive and compassionate, and doing things to be supportive and helpful," said Charlice Hurst, an assistant professor at Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business who was a co-author on the paper.

In addition, abusive supervisors led to a group of disgruntled workers approaching the labor union UNITE.

But the reality is that employees are relatively helpless in the face of an abusive supervisor.

In our previous work, we found that sleep deprivation undermines leader charisma and can lead to abusive supervisor behavior.

REFERENCE: "Righting a Wrong: Retaliation on a Voodoo Doll Symbolizing an Abusive Supervisor Restores Justice," Lindie Hanyu Liang, Douglas J. Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, D. Lance Ferris, and Lisa M. Keeping, The Leadership Quarterly, February 2018.

Plaintiffs recount being threatened by an abusive supervisor and forced to work 60 - 75 hours each week without overtime.

These results support the idea that abused supervisors engage in more ethical and less abusive behavior with their own subordinates because they disidentify with their abusive managers, and that this is more likely to occur when supervisors possess a strong moral identity.