How abusive supervision and abusive supervisory climate influence salesperson creativity and sales team effectiveness in China
How abusive supervision and abusive supervisory climate influence salesperson creativity and sales team effectiveness in China
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滥用监督和滥用监督氛围如何影响中国销售人员的创造力和销售团队的效率
DOI:
10.1108/md-07-2015-0302
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发表时间:
2016-01-01
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
Gu, Qinxuan
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文献类型:
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作者:
Jiang, Wan;Gu, Qinxuan
Purpose - Adopting the social information processing theory and social comparison theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how abusive supervision and abusive supervisory climate jointly influence salesperson creativity, sales team creativity, and team performance.Design/methodology/approach - The study conducted hierarchical linear modeling and hierarchical regression to analyze the paired data from 102 sales teams comprising 319 sales-people and 102 managers.Findings - At the individual level, abusive supervision had negative effect on salesperson creativity via psychological safety. Abusive supervisory climate played a cross-level moderating role in the relationship between abusive supervision and psychological safety. At the team level, abusive supervisory climate was negatively related to sales team creativity via averaged salesperson creativity and negatively associated with sales team performance through sales team creativity.Originality/value - This study adds to knowledge of how abusive supervision and abusive supervisory climate jointly affect salesperson psychological safety and creativity. It also contributes to abusive supervision and creativity literature by linking abusive supervisory climate and sales team creativity by integrating social information processing theory and social comparison theory.