APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
Trust Them and Trust Me: Direct Managers’ Metaperception of Skip-Level Managers’ Trust in Employees Deters Group Abusive Supervision
- Catherine Lam
Wilfrid Laurier University - Ruodan Shao
York University - Katrina Lin
Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Hong Deng
University of Nottingham Ningpo
Abstract
This research examines how higher-level managers’ trust in employees, as perceived by direct managers, reduces abusive supervision. Using a multi-source, multi-wave field study, we show that direct managers’ beliefs about how much higher-level managers trust their team members (i.e., third-party trust metaperceptions) serve as a critical mechanism constraining supervisory misconduct.
