Abusive Supervision Scale Development in Indonesia

Fenika Wulani; Bernadinus M Purwanto; Hani Handoko

doi:10.22146/gamaijb.5467

Abusive Supervision Scale Development in Indonesia

Fenika Wulani, Bernadinus M Purwanto, Hani Handoko

(Submitted 28 November 2014)

(Published 28 February 2014)

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a scale of abusive supervision in Indonesia. The study was conducted with a different context and scale development method from Tepper’s (2000) abusive supervision scale. The abusive supervision scale from Tepper (2000) was developed in the U.S., which has a cultural orientation of low power distance. The current study was conducted in Indonesia, which has a high power distance. This study used interview procedures to obtain information about supervisor’s abusive behavior, and it was also assessed by experts. The results of this study indicated that abusive supervision was a 3-dimensional construct. There were anger-active abuse (6 items), humiliation-active abuse (4 items), and passive abuse (15 items). These scales have internal reliabilities of 0.947, 0.922, and 0.845, in sequence.

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