Assistant Professor Ni Dan of the School of Business published new research results in the international authoritative journal Human Relations

Recently, Assistant Professor Ni Dan of the School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University published a paper entitled "Mitigating the harms of abusive supervision on employee thriving: The buffering effects of employees’ social-network centrality" in Human Relations, a top international academic journal in management, as the co-first author and corresponding author. Revealing the suggestion and social-network centrality of employees in the workplace helps to mitigate the negative effects of abusive supervision on employee thriving and their work outcomes. The study has important theoretical contributions to the abusive supervision literature, thriving research, and provides valuable suggestions for managers to help employees effectively deal with negative leadership behaviors.

The findings suggest that abusive supervision is negatively associated with employees' thriving. At the same time, abusive supervision has negative indirect effects on employees' task performance, organizational citizenship behavior and creativity by reducing their thriving. Furthermore, the negative relationship between abusive supervision and employees' thriving, and the indirect effects observed above, would be weakened when employee suggestion network centrality is high. Similarly, the negative relationship between abusive supervision and employees' thriving and the indirect effects observed above would also be weakened when employees' social-network centrality is high.