The effects of leaders’ abusive supervision on employees’ work engagement: a moderated-mediation model of employees’ silence and employees’ proactive personalities

Abstract

This study advances understanding of how perceived leaders' abusive supervision affects health workers' work engagement. This study contributes to the literature by confirming employees' silence as a pathway linking abusive supervision to work engagement. The study further identifies employees' proactive personality as a moderating variable in the relationship between abusive supervision and employees' silence.