Masking wrongs through brilliance: the moderating effect of vision on the relationship between abusive supervision and employee outcomes

Awe Guards My Creativity: The Interactive Effect of Perceived Abusive Supervisory Behavior, Dispositional Awe, and Creative Self-Efficacy on Chinese Employee Creativity

“…This finding implies that perceived abusive supervisor behavior and perceived supervisor dispositional awe interact to play an essential role in how followers evaluate their level of creative self-efficacy, which guides their creative performance. As leader profiles indicate the ability for leaders to simultaneously demonstrate positive and negative leadership characteristics (Isaacson, 2012 ; Fiset et al, 2019 ; Hentrup et al, 2019 ), these findings make an essential contribution to the literature, enabling us to understand better how such interactions influence creative performance.…”

“…The current study builds upon prior work (Fiset et al, 2019;Hentrup et al, 2019) to examine the interaction between perceived abusive supervisory behavior and perceived supervisor dispositional awe on follower creative self-efficacy and creative performance. Our results revealed that perceived abusive supervisory behavior negatively predicted employee creativity, and creative self-efficacy fully mediated this relationship.…”

“…Leaders tend to exhibit inconsistent behavior toward their employees: they can be abusive and exude awe simultaneously (Fiset et al, 2019 ). However, despite the existence of this phenomenon, few studies have explored the interaction between these seemingly opposite leadership characteristics.…”

“…However, recent findings by Fiset et al ( 2019 ) have challenged the notion that inconsistent leadership behavior can not coincide with influencing employee perceptions. Their results showed that leaders could simultaneously demonstrate both abusive supervisory behavior and leadership vision to influence task performance (Fiset et al, 2019 ). The objective of this study was to explore other conflicting leader behaviors that influence employee creative self-efficacy and employee creativity.…”

“…The detrimental effects of abusive supervisors on employee creativity has been thoroughly explored (e.g., Jiang and Tang, 2016;Hussain and Sia, 2017). However, recent findings by Fiset et al (2019) have challenged the notion that inconsistent leadership behavior can not coincide with influencing employee perceptions. Their results showed that leaders could simultaneously demonstrate both abusive supervisory behavior and leadership vision to influence task performance (Fiset et al, 2019).…”