Self‐protective reactions to peer abusive supervision: The moderating role of prevention focus and the mediating role of performance instrumentality
研究了当同事遭受主管欺凌时，旁观员工如何出于自我保护动机调整自身绩效努力，发现预防焦点高的员工会通过提高绩效工具性感知来增加努力。
Summary Across 3 studies, we apply a self‐protection perspective of observed mistreatment to examine a moderated mediation model on “when” and “why” third parties are motivated by peer abusive supervision. We hypothesize that prevention‐focused third parties will increase their performance effort as a response to peer abusive supervision, and this effect is mediated by performance instrumentality. In a field study of working adults (Study 1) and an experimental study that manipulated peer abusive supervision (Study 2), we found that peer abusive supervision interacted with third parties' prevention focus to predict their performance effort such that peer abuse was positively related to third parties' performance effort only for those high on prevention focus. Results were replicated in a second field study of working adults (Study 3). Further, we found support for the mediating effect of performance instrumentality. The theoretical and practical implications of our results are discussed.