When does subordinate performance strengthen abusive supervision?

We conducted a time-lagged survey with 142 matched reports from supervisors and subordinates who had direct reporting relationships with the supervisors in the South Korean military. Using the data, we examine the association between supervisor perception of subordinate performance and abusive supervision (AS), and the interaction effects of a supervisor’s need for achievement and second-level superiors’ close monitoring of first-line supervisors, as key boundary conditions for the performance-AS relationship.