“…Examples of abusive supervisory behaviors include public ridicule (Tepper, 2000), employing the silent treatment, explosive outbursts, aggressive eye contact (Zellars, Tepper, & Duffy, 2002), breaking promises, invading privacy, lying, taking credit for subordinates' work (Harris, Kacmar, & Zivnuska, 2007), supervisors' violations of normative standards (Unal, Warren, & Chen, 2012), and purposely withholding needed information (Zellars et al, 2002). A growing scholarly interest in abusive supervision has emerged as more research has shown it to not only negatively affect the attitudes and behaviors of employees but also bring significant economic costs to the organization (Avey, Wu, & Holley, 2015;Decoster, Camps, Stouten, Vandevyvere, & Tripp, 2013;Palanski, Avey, & Jiraporn, 2014;Tepper, 2007;Tepper, Duffy, Hoobler, & Ensley, 2004).…”