The role abusive supervision on job tension and employees deviance of selected banks in Najafabad city: the mediating role of self-regulation

This study's goal is to investigate the role abusive supervision on job tension and deviance among employees of selected banks in Najaf Abad city by the mediating role of self-regulatory. Methode: The target population included employees selected banks in Najafabad city to 435 people. The sample size was selected using the Morgan table, to 217 people. To measure variables, of Tepper (2000) questionnaire for abusive supervision and Tangney’s (2008) questionnaire for selfregulation, House and Rizzo’s (1972) questionnaire for job tension and Bennett and Robinson’s (2000) questionnaire for job deviance were used. Reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. Structural equation modeling and PLS software were used to analyze the data.

The results of the research showed that abusive supervision has an effect on employee deviance. Also, abusive supervision is indirectly affected on job tension by employee self-regulation. This demonstrates the mediating role of self-regulation.

abusive supervision is one of the factors that increase tension and deviation in the employees. Employees can protect themselves from tensions or deviations when they have acquired self-regulation skills. Since the mediating role of self-regulation was confirmed, therefore employees can use self-regulation to reduce abusive supervision destructive effects.