
Scott C. DouglasUniversity of Montana | UMT · School of Business Administration
Scott C. Douglas
Ph.D.
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August 1996 - April 2000
July 2002 - June 2005
July 2005 - present
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Empirical work on the concept of abusive supervision typically employs measurements of subordinates' perceptions of abuse as the primary dependent variable. This study began with a test of the notion that a significant proportion of subordinates' perceptions of abuse can be explained by individual differences in subordinates' attribution styles and...
The article explores the issue of abusive supervision. Topics include the attributions and perceptions of abuse supervision by subordinates, the relationship between attributions and abusive supervision, lead-member relations as a mediator, and Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) relationships. It concluded that a large part of the variability in subordin...
The Emergence of Attribution TheoryDefinition and ConstructMeasuring AttributionsAttributional BiasesIndividual Differences and AttributionsCounterproductive BehaviorLeader-Member InteractionsImpression Management and Human Resource ManagementAttributions and EmotionsGroup and Organizational Level AttributionsEmerging IssuesConclusions
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We present a model that captures processes leading to aggressive behaviors in the workplace. Starting with trigger events, the model outlines the development of aggressive behaviors via three processing routes that vary in their level of deliberate, mindful processing. The model outlines how repeated exposure to trigger events can lead to the escal...
The purpose of this article is to review literature that has focused on the role of attributions in leadership processes and to explore and explain how the study of attributions does, and can, contribute to our understanding of the dynamics of leadership. The historical roots of attribution research are discussed, along with early attributional res...
This article supported the hypothesis that leaders’ and members’ attribution styles have interactive effects on members’ perceptions of the quality of their leader–member relations. Across two samples, results revealed an interactive effect such that members’ perceptions of poor leader–member relations were most accentuated when they were biased to...
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The purpose of this article is to develop a conceptual model predicting the influence of biased causal explanations for subordinate behaviors and outcomes on a leader's functionality and the quality of leader‐member relationships.
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Attribution theory is used to analyze the effect of leader perceptions and emotion...
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This paper offers a model that illustrates the relationship between organizational structure, work stress and perceived strain based on the concept of bureaucratic orientation.
Design/methodology/approach
After a brief review of the stress and structure literatures, a number of propositions are developed concerning organizationally‐induced...
Managing organizational aggression On December 30, 1999, the Radisson Hotel in Tampa, Florida, was filled with guests. Many were college football fans in town for the “Outback Bowl,” whereas others had arrived early to celebrate the coming of the new millennium. All plans were abruptly put on hold at 3:10 pm, however, when a hotel employee named Si...
Prior theory and research suggests a positive relation between perceived victimization and overt anger. The authors proposed and tested a theoretical extension of this link by investigating possible moderating effects of individual and contextual variables. A sample of 158 employees of a municipality was used to test hypotheses that the relationshi...
This article uses a practical and theoretical explication of “dues paying” as a vehicle for synthesizing and integrating attribution, justice, and impression management theories. A model is proposed that depicts the dues paying process as a specific type of impression management process that is stimulated by information that cues attributions of ju...
Self-efficacy has been described as a malleable quality based on individual perceptions of ability in given situations and has repetitively been linked to performance gains and other positive organizational outcomes. Less research has addressed the processes that shape individual efficacy levels. This article explores the role of emotional intellig...
This study examines whether the experience of identity threat predicts antisocial behavior directed towards other employees. A social interactionist model is used as a theoretical framework for predicting that employees who are frequent recipients of actions that challenge or diminish their sense of competence, dignity, or self-worth will engage in...
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in attention to counterproductive workplace behaviors including violence, stealing, dishonesty, volitional absenteeism, drug and alcohol abuse, and aggression, many of which have been addressed in this special issue. Accompanying the attention to these specific types of behaviors has been a prolifera...
In this article we integrate the power, justice, and prosocial literature on whistle-blowing with the attribution and emotion literature to develop a social information processing model. This model illustrates how individuals' attributions and responsibility judgments for wrongdoing, as well as their cost-benefit analyses of acting, influence their...
This study investigates the relationship between individual differences and the incidence of workplace aggression in a sample of employees from a transportation company and a public school system. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicated that measures of trait anger, attribution style, negative affectivity, attitudes toward revenge, self...
The extent to which decision-makers are willing and able to purposely expend cognitive effort in resolving ethical issues is an important area of study in the ethical decision-making literature. In this article we describe the role that cognitive expenditure is expected to play in the ethical decision-making process by presenting an integrated mode...
This paper explores the possibility that journals in the management area of the social sciences may not reflect the same degree of publication bias that has typically been found in other areas. Data from structured interviews and quantitative comparisons indicated that top tier journals in the management area have lower acceptance rates than our co...
The high failure rate for expatriate leaders is well documented. One major cause of these failures has been identified as the incongruencies in the perceptions of expatriate leaders and the host members that they manage. This article describes theory and research which suggests that a potential explanation for at least some of these perceptual inco...
Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-162). Photocopy.