Structural Model of Abusive Supervision, Role Overload, Exhaustion and Job Alienation

This research was conducted with the aim of studying the structural model of relationships between abusive supervision, role overload, exhaustion and job alienation. For investigating this model, from among male employees of a factory, 168 persons were selected by using simple random sampling method. The instruments which were used in this research consisted of emotional exhaustion questionnaire (Maslach & Jackson, 1981), abusive supervision questionnaire (Tepper, 2000), work overload questionnaire (Rod et al, 2008), and job alienation questionnaire (Korman et al, 1981). The data were analyzed by using structure equation modeling. (SEM) . On the basis of the structural model obtained from multilevel sequential relationships, there is a significant relation between abusive supervision, and work overload, between work overload and emotional exhaustion, and finally between emotional exhaustion and job alienation (P<0.01). A direct relation was also found in the final model between abusive supervision and work alienation.