The Impact of Abusive Supervision on Employee Creativity and Team Innovation: Mediation Role of Employee Intrinsic Motivation

Abstract

The basic purpose of this research paper is to examine the impact of abusive supervision on employee creativity at team-level and team innovation. Specifically, this paper has tested whether mediating role of employee intrinsic motivation can help to decrease the negative effects of abusive supervision on employee creativity at team-level and team innovation. The study was conducted in Pakistani banking industry and 300 full time employees fill out the questionnaires. The correlation and regression analysis method was used to analyze the data. The abusive supervision negativity effects the employees’ creativity at team-level and team innovation. It also diminishes the employee intrinsic motivation. The study is cross-sectional in nature and there is need to choose the longitudinal design in order to strengthen the results. This study focuses on the abusive supervision and employee creativity at team-level in banking industry of Pakistan which is not conducted before. In Pakistan there is lack of studies which determines the negative impacts of abusive supervision on employee creativity at team-level and this study fills the basic gap.

Keywords: Abusive Supervision, Employee Creativity, Innovation, Intrinsic Motivation.