Abstract:
The supervisor's mainly paying an important role at the manufacturing industries in
employee performance. Employees are closely supervised by the supervisors' at their
firms when there working hours. When their employees are wrong or they cannot achieve
their daily or weekly targets the supervisor has to correct them through the appropriate
ways. Abusive supervision is closely associated with many negative psychological
outcomes. The additional consequence of turnover intentions is high levels of emotional
distress. In Sri Lankan context, limited empirical studies have been conducted regarding
the impact of abusive supervisory behavior on employee turnover intention and the
mediation role of emotional distress within selected apparel companies. The purpose of
the research report was to find out how the emotional distress effect as a mediating
variable between abusive supervisory behavior and employee turnover intention. To
achieve these objectives, data was collected from 263 operational employees using
structured questionnaire. The results show that abusive supervisory behavior, emotional
distress and employee turnover intention are in high level and identified that, there are
strong positive relationship between abusive supervisory behavior, emotional distress and
employee turnover intention. Abusive supervisory behavior significantly impact on
emotional distress and employee turnover intention partially mediate the relationship
between abusive supervisory behavior and employee turnover intention in selected
apparel companies.
