Talk:Abusive supervision

Why is there a "weasel" tag on a quote? ...
Why is there a "weasel" tag on a quote? ... Clearly, quotes shouldn't be marked with the tag, as quotes can't be rewritten. The quote also appears to have two valid citations or attributions. I also don't see any words within the quote that would even constitute weasel words, i.e., with a vague or ambiguous part. It is phrased at an academic level. Maybe, that confused someone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.54.0.181 (talk) 11:43, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

What is Abusive Supervision? needs some definition
The first sentence should explain abusive supervision (i.e. Abusive supervison is a term for abusive and bullying behavior from ... most often found in workplaces.). It took me 5 minutes to get the concept, because I read "Abusive supervision" as single term and there is no defintion in the opening paragraph, and I'm still not sure if I got a workable definition. I expect the first sentence to be definition-like, as we can't expect a term to be self evident. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:20FE:2700:9017:7564:EE78:ACD5 (talk) 12:51, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Unsourced opinions
"Researchers have previously argued that abusive supervision is a one dimensional construct"

Really? Which researchers argued that?

"however, recently it is found to be a four dimensional construct."

Having four aspects (yelling, belittling behavior, scapegoating and credit stealing) is not the same thing as being four dimensional. And anyone who has ever had a bad boss can name other aspects that could just as easily have been listed. Who say that controlling, micromanaging, not listening, favoritism, of breaking promises are not as important as yelling, belittling, scapegoating and credit stealing? Many bad bosses screw you over without ever yelling.

"The study of Ghayas and Jabeen is a paramount study"

Not, it seems, paramount enough for either of those names to be in the citations.

"that suggests abusive supervision to be a four dimensional construct"

Nice jump from "suggests" to "found to be".

The citations are good. We just need to nuke the text and make it match what the citations actually say.

14:43, 4 November 2021 (UTC)2600:1700:D0A0:21B0:785E:C7BE:145F:F5C (talk)

This article needs to be rewritten to be comprehensible to lay readers
As well as problems such as a lack of a definition at the beginning of the article, which have been mentioned above by others, the article as a whole is unreadable to a lay audience. For instance, people who do not habitually read scientific papers will have difficulty understanding what "positively associated" means. What they want to know is that people who are abusively supervised are more likely to suffer from anxiety and are also likely to have a reduced sense of wellbeing. So tell them that, in normal language like that.

I'd do it myself except that I don't have the time to do the large amount of work that needs to be done on this article, and because someone who actually knows the subject could do it much more quickly than I could. Itsmeitis (talk) 16:31, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Abandoned user draft
Please would an interested editor assess the material added at the class exercise User:MGMT90018 2015S2 abusive supervision/sandbox, incorporate what is useful, blank that page as WP:COPYARTICLE, and leave a note here when done? – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:58, 25 September 2023 (UTC)