Abstract
The current study tries to understand the diverse nature of relationship between personality Big
Five Model (PBFM) and student’s perception of abusive supervision in higher education
institutions of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Pakistan. Data was collected in dyads i.e. (supervisors
were asked to rate their personality attributes while student were asked to rate the supervisor
behavior) through adopted construct. For this purpose, data was collected from three
government state universities and one Private Sector University. The focus was on MS/M.Phill
and PhD student and their supervisors of the mentioned universities. After measuring normality
and validity regression analysis was conducted to assess the impact of supervisor personality
characteristics that leads to abusive supervision. Findings indicate interestingly that except
agreeableness other four attributes of (PBFM) are play their role for abusive supervision. The
results are novel in the nature as for the first time Neuroticism, openness to experience,
extraversion and conscientiousness are held responsible for the abusive supervision. The study
did not explore the demographic characteristics, and moderating role of organizational culture,
justice and interpersonal deviances to understand the strength of relationship in more detail
way.
Bibi Tahira, Naveed Saif, Muhammad Haroon , Sadaqat Ali. (2019) Relationship between big five personality model and abusive supervision, Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-12, Issue-2.
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