Abusive Supervision - a Form of Workplace Harassment: an Exploratory Study in the Ecuadorian Hospitality Industry
Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In light of the conspicuous absence of workplace harassment (“acoso laboral”) in the Ecuadorian Constitution and the country’s Labor and Penal Codes, this article reports on an exploratory study about abusive supervision, a form of workplace harassment, \nin the country’s hospitality industry. Based on a review of the literature on various forms of \nworkplace harassment, the study investigated employee opinions about their supervisors’ behaviors and found that abusive supervision is a prominent issue in the Ecuadorian hospitality \nindustry and that it is signifcantly related to employees’ intentions to leave the organization. \nThe study advocates future research into other components of workplace harassment in these \nand other industries in the country and into the development of measures that reduce abusive \nsupervision and workplace harassment.
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2183553505