“…Past studies have found that there is a negative reciprocal social exchange relationship between abusive supervisors and employees (Cropanzano et al, 2017), and abused employees would take a negative attitude toward the organization as reciprocation for the abusive supervision. Abusive supervision can affect subordinates' trust of their leaders and reduce their job satisfaction (Tepper, 2007;Velez and Neves, 2017), resulting in a reduction in affective commitment (Tepper, 2007;Wang and Peng, 2015;Ampofo, 2020), which has been confirmed in the context of Chinese hotels in this study. In addition, since abusive supervision is a subjective feeling of subordinates (Tepper, 2000), many supervisors may sometimes not realize their abusive behavior toward their subordinates.…”