Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2015
Abstract
We examine daily leader sleep as an antecedent to daily abusive supervisory behavior and work unit engagement. Drawing from ego depletion theory, our theoretical extension includes a serial mediation model of nightly sleep quantity and quality as predictors of abusive supervision. We argue that poor nightly sleep influences leaders to enact daily abusive behaviors via ego depletion, and these abusive behaviors ultimately result in decreased daily subordinate unit work engagement. We test this model through an experience sampling study spread over ten work days with data from both supervisors and their subordinates. Our study supports the role of the indirect effects of sleep quality (but not sleep quantity) via leader ego depletion and daily abusive supervisor behavior on daily subordinate unit work engagement.
Keywords
abusive supervision, ego depletion, incivility, leadership, self-control, sleep, work engagement
Discipline
Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory
Research Areas
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources
Publication
Academy of Management Journal
Volume
58
Issue
5
First Page
1419
Last Page
1437
ISSN
1948-0989
Identifier
10.5465/amj.2013.1063
Publisher
Academy of Management
Citation
BARNES, Christopher M.; LUCIANETTI, Lorenzo; BHAVE, Devasheesh P.; and CHRISTIAN, Michael S..
"You wouldn't like me when I'm sleepy": Leader sleep, daily abusive supervision, and work unit engagement. (2015). Academy of Management Journal. 58, (5), 1419-1437.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4353
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2013.1063