{"title":"Passionate leaders behaving badly: Why do leaders become obsessively passionate and engage in abusive supervision?","authors":"Marina N Astakhova, Violet T Ho","doi":"10.1037/ocp0000340","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While extant passion research has predominantly highlighted the benefits of work passion, such passion may also have a dark side and provoke negative behaviors that harm others. This work examines abusive supervision as an outcome of leaders' obsessive work passion, and explores leaders' importance of performance to self-esteem (IPSE) as an antecedent of such passion. We test our predictions across two studies. In an initial test of whether leaders' obsessive passion (OP) is predicted by their IPSE and predicts abusive supervision, Study 1 employs a time-lagged sample of leader-subordinate dyads and examines abusive supervision as reported by subordinates. Study 2 expands on the model by incorporating two components of burnout, exhaustion, and disengagement, as explanatory mechanisms linking leader OP to abusive supervision as reported by supervisors. Overall, we find that high-IPSE leaders are more likely than their low-IPSE counterparts to develop obsessive work passion, which then contributes to their exhaustion and disengagement, ultimately resulting in higher abusive supervision. Implications for work passion research are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":48339,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational Health Psychology","volume":"28 1","pages":"40-51"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Occupational Health Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000340","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/11/3 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
While extant passion research has predominantly highlighted the benefits of work passion, such passion may also have a dark side and provoke negative behaviors that harm others. This work examines abusive supervision as an outcome of leaders' obsessive work passion, and explores leaders' importance of performance to self-esteem (IPSE) as an antecedent of such passion. We test our predictions across two studies. In an initial test of whether leaders' obsessive passion (OP) is predicted by their IPSE and predicts abusive supervision, Study 1 employs a time-lagged sample of leader-subordinate dyads and examines abusive supervision as reported by subordinates. Study 2 expands on the model by incorporating two components of burnout, exhaustion, and disengagement, as explanatory mechanisms linking leader OP to abusive supervision as reported by supervisors. Overall, we find that high-IPSE leaders are more likely than their low-IPSE counterparts to develop obsessive work passion, which then contributes to their exhaustion and disengagement, ultimately resulting in higher abusive supervision. Implications for work passion research are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
尽管现有的激情研究主要强调工作激情的益处,但这种激情也可能有阴暗的一面,会引发伤害他人的负面行为。本研究将滥用监督作为领导者痴迷工作激情的一种结果,并将领导者的绩效对自尊的重要性(IPSE)作为这种激情的前因进行了探讨。我们通过两项研究检验了我们的预测。在对领导者的痴迷激情(OP)是否由其 IPSE 预测并预测虐待性监督的初步测试中,研究 1 采用了领导者-下属二元组的时滞样本,并对下属报告的虐待性监督进行了检验。研究 2 对模型进行了扩展,将职业倦怠的两个组成部分--疲惫和脱离--作为解释机制,将领导 OP 与上司报告的滥用监督联系起来。总体而言,我们发现高 IPSE 领导者比低 IPSE 领导者更容易产生执着的工作激情,进而导致他们精疲力竭和脱离工作,最终导致更高的滥用监督。本文讨论了工作激情研究的意义。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, 版权所有)。
期刊介绍:
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology offers research, theory, and public policy articles in occupational health psychology, an interdisciplinary field representing a broad range of backgrounds, interests, and specializations. Occupational health psychology concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life and to protecting and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of workers. This journal focuses on the work environment, the individual, and the work-family interface.