When abusive supervision affects creative idea sharing: Understanding the role of employee cheating and organizational justice.

Getting employees to share their creative ideas has long been recognized as a vital source of organizational effectiveness. This research uses the conservation of resources theory to investigate how employee's creative idea sharing is affected by abusive supervision. Data for this research was collected from 209 employees and their immediate supervisors of generic nurses and medical dispensers of Southern Punjab public sector hospitals working under the Ministry of national health services regulation and Coordination. Data were then analyzed with the AMOS software package for simple regression and moderated mediation. This study found that with the increase in abusive supervision, employees develop cheating behavior, diminishing probability of sharing their creative ideas with coworkers. Along these lines, organizational justice moderates this relationship and attenuates the negative indirect effect of abusive supervision on creative idea sharing. The researchers recommended that organizations should develop training programs or coaching sessions for leaders to make them equip with essential interpersonal skills that can eradicate abusive supervision. Research implications, limitations, and future research directions are also discussed.
Competing Interests: The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests:Meiqin Jiang reports financial support was provided by 10.13039/501100001809National Natural Science Foundation of China (72102083). Meiqin Jiang reports financial support was provided by The Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Fund Project of the Ministry of Education (Grant 20YJC630051). Sarminah Samad reports financial support was provided by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2023R4). If there are other authors, they declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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