Abstract:
It is a very much known fact that leaders play a very critical and significant role in shaping and building
of employees’ behavior in an organization. However, besides the positive role of leadership, it has also
a dark side (abusive supervision) which can have a high deleterious impacts on the life of an employees
within the organization and also beyond the boundaries of an organization. Abusive supervision has
negative impact on multiple factors like organizational commitment, organizational citizenship
behavior, employees’ engagement and many more like these factors. In this study, an impact of
perceived abusive supervision in relation to employees overeating behavior has been studied with the
mediating role of employees’ negative mood and moderating role of work recovery experiences.
The data for this study was collected from the local private commercial banks of Pakistan by adopting
an experience sampling study method. The study adopted a multi wave momentary approach and a
survey technique in the collection of data. In this study, SPSS V.21 was used for the analysis of the
data and PROCESS macro was used for carrying out moderated mediated analysis. This study has
adopted a convenience sampling method with a sample size of 1150. The results of the current study
have supported all the proposed hypothesis of the study. The current study adds to the existing
literature of abusive supervision that it has a positive relation with negative mood and employees
overeating behavior and also recovery experiences play a significant role in the regulation of
employees’ negative mood.
