Abusive leadership infects entire team
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 11:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Supervisors who are abusive to individual employees can actually throw the entire work team into conflict, hurting productivity, finds new research led by a business scholar. Supervisors who belittle and ridicule workers not only negatively affect those workers' attitudes and behaviors, but also cause team members to act in a similar hostile manner toward one another, research indicates.