Cultural Roots: Investigating Personal Identiï¬cation Mechanisms between Work Life Conflicts and Abusive Supervision
Abstract
Abusive supervision has become a problematic issue in Pakistan and across the world.  The victims of abusive supervision adversely ajfect their wellbeing and self—worth. Thus, this  study has measured the effect of abusive subversion on work family conflict, work life conflict,  surface acting, and the eflect of work—life-conflict on family satisfaction. The theoretical  grounding of the developed conceptual framework is based on past literature. The scale and  measures of the constructs used in the study have been adapted from the earlier developed  scales. The scope of the study was restricted to the textile sector. The sample size for the study  was 397 and the response rate was 95%. All the four developed hypotheses were accepted.  The strongest ejfect of abusive supervision was on work family conflict, followed by work life  conflict and surface acting. The eï¬ect of fami/y-work-conflict on family satisfaction was the  lowest.References
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