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. 2021 Jun 28;180(1):215–244. doi: 10.1007/s10551-021-04864-7

Table 3.

Summary of studies, their procedures, and data/sample characteristics

Study Procedures and variables Data/sample
Study 1

Critical incident technique = 85 critical incidents

Reduction of initial pool to 37 items in four dimensions using independent coders and content analysis

Expert rating of content adequacy Lexical analyses with software support (Iramuteq)

N = 35 employees—25 managers (snowball sampling/not hierarchically related)

M age = 38.65 years 52% of the managers and 60% of subordinates were male different industries

Study 2

Item reduction

CFA and reliability estimation

Correlational analysis discriminant/nomological: ethical leadership, abusive supervision

HLB and AS regressed on satisfaction with the leader Power analysis

N = 218 employees—snowball sampling

M age = 37.09 years 42.2% male different industries

Study 3

CFA and reliability estimation

Correlational analysis

Discriminant/nomological: abusive supervision, destructive leadership, initiating structure and consideration, laissez faire, management by exception active and passive, engagement, affective commitment and deviance

Measurement invariance

Incremental prediction of HLB over employee attitudes

N = 352 employees M age = 35.89 years 54.8% female Panel study, Different industries
Study 4

CFA and reliability estimation

Correlational analysis

Discriminant/nomological: knowledge sharing, knowledge hiding, psychological safety, workaholism follower, perfectionism follower, desire for control follower, distrust

N = 160 employees

Snowball sampling

M age = 32.65 years 64% female different industries

Study 5

Multilevel CFA

Bayesian analysis predicting absenteeism hard data

N = 1921 employees

196 units

M age = 42 years 52.6% male

AS  abusive supervision