The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Workplace Deviant Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Organizational Cynicism and Moral Disengagement

Abstract

This study seeks to provide a practical and theoretical framework about the effect of abusive supervision on workplace deviant behaviors and indirect through organizational cynicism & moral disengagement has been building the theoretical framework, according to the four variables of the study and that its light has been the development of the basic assumptions for this study. And it applied and tested in this study the public health sector in Sudan represented in Dongola Specialized Hospital. The questionnaire was used as data collection method for this study and the sample size was amounted to (170) individuals working in the nursing stuff. The path analysis software (Amos V24) was used to test the hypotheses of the study. The results showed that the direct positive effect (0.499) for abusive supervision on workplace deviant behaviors, and there is positive indirect effect (mediate) (0.590) for abusive supervision on workplace deviant behaviors through the mediating variables organizational cynicism & moral disengagement. In the light of study results, a set of recommendations for the Hospital was suggested to reduce behaviors of abusive supervision, organizational cynicism and moral disengagement, furthermore decrease deviant behaviors in the Hospital.