Bullying bosses negatively impact employee performance and behavior

Employees bullied by their bosses are more likely to report unfairness and work stress, and consequently become less committed to their jobs or even retaliate, according to a Portland State University study. Yang and her co-authors reviewed 427 studies and quantitatively aggregated the results to better understand why and how bullying bosses can decrease “organizational citizenship behavior” — or the voluntary extras you do that aren’t part of your job responsibilities — and increase “counterproductive work behavior.” The researchers found that fairness (or the lack thereof) accounted more for the link between abusive supervision and organizational citizenship behavior, while work stress led to more counterproductive work behavior.

Source: www.pdx.edu