In the workplace, supervisor behavior may affect employee activities and organizational performance. Employee may experience supervisor intentional actions of making derogatory remarks or comments on them . These are known as the social undermining behavior. Social undermining behavior is related to unfavorable outcomes of organizations, such as the reduction of work performance, negative work attitude and behavior.
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among Supervisor Social Undermining, Employee Organizational Commitment and Employee Counterproductive Work Behavior. The study is based on anonymous questionnaires collected from 318 employees. 94.97% of the questionnaires is valid. The results are as follows:
1. Supervisor social undermining is positively related to employee counterproductive work behavior.
2. Supervisor social undermining is negatively related to employee organizational commitment.
3. Employee organizational commitment is negatively related to employee counterproductive work behavior.
4. The effect of employee organizational commitment partially mediates the relationship between supervisor social undermining and employee counterproductive work behavior.
This study discusses the implication for the theories and managerial practices, and suggestions for the future study.
