Abusive Supervision Scale Development in Indonesia

Fenika Wulani; Bernadinus M Purwanto; Hani Handoko

Fenika Wulani Widya Mandala Catholic University
Bernadinus M Purwanto Universitas Gadjah Mada
Hani Handoko Universitas Gadjah Mada

Keywords: development, economy, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a scale of abusive supervision in Indonesia. The study was conducted with a different context and scale development method from Tepper’s (2000) abusive supervision scale. The abusive supervision scale from Tepper (2000) was developed in the U.S., which has a cultural orientation of low power distance. The current study was conducted in Indonesia, which has a high power distance. This study used interview procedures to obtain information about supervisor’s abusive behavior, and it was also assessed by experts. The results of this study indicated that abusive supervision was a 3-dimensional construct. There were anger-active abuse (6 items), humiliation-active abuse (4 items), and passive abuse (15 items). These scales have internal reliabilities of 0.947, 0.922, and 0.845, in sequence.

Author Biographies

Fenika Wulani, Widya Mandala Catholic University

WULANI, Fenika is a senior lecturer at the Management Department - Faculty of Business, and Graduate School at Widya Mandala Catholic University in Surabaya, Indonesia. She received her Doctoral degree in Management from Universitas Gadjah Mada - Indonesia, with major in Human Resource Management and Organization. Her dissertation is about abusive supervision. Her research interests are Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Workplace Deviance Behavior, and Abusive Supervision. She has presented her researches at several International Conferences, such as in Thailand-Japan International Academic Conference at Osaka University on 2013 and at Tokyo Institute of Technology on 2012.
Author’s contact details: Graduate School, Widya Mandala Catholic University, Jl. Dinoyo 42-44, Surabaya, Indonesia; e-mail: fwulani@yahoo.com.

Bernadinus M Purwanto, Universitas Gadjah Mada

PURWANTO, Bernardinus M., is an Associate Professor at the Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business,Universitas Gadjah Mada. He earned his PhD from University of Philippines, Philippines. His research interest is Marketing. Some of his works have been published in International Journal of Market Research, Asia Pacific Management Review, Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business, International Journal of Business and Management Studies, Journal of Service Science.
Author’s contact details: Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jl. Humaniora No. 1, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia; e-mail: bm-purwanto@ugm.ac.id.

Hani Handoko, Universitas Gadjah Mada

HANDOKO, Hani T. is currently a Senior Lecturer of Management in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Gadjah Mada (FEB-UGM), where he received a Sarjana (S1) degree in Management in 1981. He earned his M.B.A. in Human Resource Management from the School of Business at State University of New York at Albany, and his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky at Lexington. He specializes in human resource management, organizational behavior, and strategic management. He has authored or co-authored several textbooks and published articles in Indonesian journals.
Author’s contact details: Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jl. Humaniora No. 1, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta 55281, Indonesia; e-mail: hanihandoko@ymail.com

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