ABUSIVE SUPERVISION AT WORKPLACE AND NEGATIVE IMPACT ON EMPLOYEES’ CREATIVITY

Abstract

Nowadays, Saudi Arabia is witnessing major changes in its corporate work environment in view of Vision 2030 and the need to establish strong base of industries away from oil. Providing the right workplace atmosphere to the human resources of any organization plays an important role in how such organization develops and grows. As the business relations among organizations are governed by seniority and grade system, it becomes mandatory to establish a healthy relation between the supervisor and the subordinate employees. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Some supervisors use abusive behavior with their employees, a thing which creates negative impact on those employees and on their creativity at the workplace. This study explores the abusive supervision at the workplace and its negative impact on the creativity of the employees. This study used quantitative research method and descriptive approach. Online questionnaire survey was conducted to gather the primary data among the employees form different companies in Jeddah. The sample size of this study is 100 participants from various industries background such as technology, insurance, finance, food service, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. The obtained result shows that abusive supervision is negatively affects employees’ creativity. HR Department should adopt a monitoring and disciplinary action policy on the abusive supervision in order to provide a healthy work environment for all employees