“Predictors of Abusive Supervision: Supervisor Perceptions of Deep-Level Dissimilarity, Relationship Conflict, and Subordinate Performance," by Bennett Tepper, Sherry Moss, and Michelle Duffy Name Instructor`s name Course number Date About thirteen per cent of people working in the US suffer abusive supervision and hostility from employees and their superiors at work and this includes behavior such as embarrassment in the public and volatile outbursts. The abuse results in problems such as aggression towards the abusive supervisor, problem drinking and psychological disturbance on the abused worker (Tepper, Moss, & Duffy, 2011).The authors make reference to three research publications on why supervisors abuse their subordinates. The findings indicate that they do so as a response to the abuse that they underwent previously in the hands of a similarly abusive employer or supervisor (Tepper, Moss, & Duffy, 2011). According to the authors, the subordin...