Relationship between Abusive supervision and Cyberloafing: Mediating role of Self control and Moral identity

Abstract

Drawing upon the social exchange theory, social cognitive theory and self-control theory, this research study focuses on the relationship between abusive supervision and cyberloafing. With increasing research on abusive supervision, there is a need to investigate the mediating relationship of abusive supervision with employee deviant work behavior, for instance, cyber loafing. Many researchers have focused on the negative relationship and outcomes of abusive behaviors, but many have highlighted the need to research on the moderating or mediating mechanism of perceived abusive supervision and its outcomes. To do so, we propose a mediating model where we propose moral identity and self- control as a mediator to analyze the relationship of perceived abusive supervision and cyberloafing. With the help of cross sectional research design and survey, the data was collected from multinational companies of Islamabad, Pakistan. In order to conduct data analysis SPSS v. 21 was used for regression and correlation analysis and PROCESS macro v. 3.0 for testing of mediating hypothesis. The present study contributes in the literature by conducting research on the gap which is the addition of variables like self-control and moral identity. Positive leadership such as the ethical leadership, transformation leadership and transaction leadership are likely to improve the moral identity and self-control of the workforce.