Supervisor Incivility, Psychology Safety and Employee Turnover Intention: Does Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi Matter?
Chang-e LIU, Yahui Chen, Shengxian YU, Shumin Hu, Jie Huang, Cody Ding

Abstract
Research to date has largely been unclear about the relationship between supervisor incivility and employee turnover intention. Based on social cognition theory, we examine the extent to which psychology safety mediates the relationship between supervisor incivility and employee turnover intention, and the extent to which supervisor-subordinate guanxi moderates these relationships. Collecting 218 employees’ data, we find that supervisor incivility is associated with psychology safety, which in turn relates to employee turnover intention. Moreover, we find that supervisor-subordinate guanxi moderates the relationship between supervisor incivility and employee turnover intention. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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