The Effect of Abusive Supervision on Employee Silence: Mediating Role of Justice Perception in Oil and Gas Sector of Pakistan

Abstract

The ambition of this research is to investigate the effect of the abusive supervision on employee silence with mediating role of justice perception. This present study is backed by Conservation of Resource (COR) theory; the major purpose is to enlarge our knowledge on the noxious impacts of abusive behavior of supervisors, it supervision can be detailed as employees attention that their managers or supervisors is engaged in the continuous array of hostile verbal and nonverbal behavior. The sample for this study were gathered from sample of 131 respondents from oil and gas sector of Pakistan which includes the following departments OGDCL, Mari Petroleum, Pakistan Petroleum, Saif Energy, Petroleum exploration limited, general petroleum limited and united energy Pakistan . The outcome of this research specifies that abusive supervision have positive connection with employee silence, and the justice perception has mediating effect between them. Present study is a remarkable contribution in the area of management sciences and it has also further multiple implications at academic level and managerial level. In future, it will be amusing to prospect this research in diverse cultural conditions and organizations.