Relationship of Abusive Supervision and Organizational Justice with Workplace Deviance Behavior among Nurse

Abstract

Background: Abusive supervision allows nurses to develop a sense of unfairness towards their hospital thatleading some nurses to engage in workplace deviance behaviors as a result Aim: to investigate relationship of abusivesupervision and organizational justice with workplace deviance behavior among nurses at Mansoura University ChildrenHospital. Methods: A descriptive, correlational design was utilized with convenience sample of all available nurses atleast one-year experience at Mansoura University Children Hospital. Tools of data collection were Abusive SupervisionScale, Organizational Justice Scale and Egyptian Nursing Work Deviant Scale. Results: Majority of the studied nursessaw that level of abusive supervision at workplace was low (60.5%), Most of the studied nurses saw that level oforganizational justice at workplace was moderate (46.2%), Majority of the studied nurses saw that level of workplacedeviance behaviors was moderate low (91.3%) and there was statistically positive relationship between abusivesupervision and workplace deviance behavior as perceived by the studied nurses but there was negative relationshipbetween organizational justice and workplace deviance behavior. Conclusion: There was a statistically positiveassociation between abusive supervision and workplace deviance behavior, while there was a negative relationshipbetween organizational justice and workplace deviance behavior as observed by the nurses at Mansoura UniversityChildren Hospital. Recommendations: Future research could concentrate on longitudinal study designs to furtherinvestigate the effects of abusive supervision and organizational justice on workplace deviant, focus on how abusivesupervision, organizational justice and work place deviance affect nurse performance,