Influence of Abusive Supervision on Turnover Intentions: Moderating Role of Job Embeddedness

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Abstract

Number of misfortunes are reported by the employees such as they are scolded or abused by their leaders resulting in negative psychology of employees. Accordingly, this study examined the influence of abusive supervision on the turnover intentions of the employees mediated by job dissatisfaction. Additionally, the study also considered the moderating role of job embeddedness as a moderator. Following the positivism approach the study was deductive and quantitative. The data were collected by using the questionnaires adapted from the previous studies. A total of 500 questionnaires were distributed among the public sector employees resulting in a total of 350 questionnaires used for data analysis. The respondents were selected by using the convenience sampling. And data were subjected to both SPSS and Smart PLS for analysis. Findings of the study revealed that presence of the abusive supervision tends to result in job dissatisfaction among the employees. Later on, the dissatisfied employees tend to have intentions to leave the jobs. The study results revealed that the job dissatisfaction tends to mediate the relationship between abusive supervision and turnover intentions. Results put forward that the job embeddedness is not a significant moderator. The study is a significant contribution to the literature since it enhanced the understanding about the process through which abusive supervision tends to influence turnover intentions. Although it did not support the job embeddedness as a moderator, but it provided another future avenue for research.