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2018 KANTER LECTURE

My Family Made Me Do It: Family-Work Conflict and Abusive Supervision

Stephen Courtright, PhD

Associate Professor and Presidential Impact Fellow
Department of Management
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University

Approximately 14% of U.S. employees are victims of abusive supervision (nonphysical aggression) exhibited by supervisors toward subordinates. Research has already identified how abusive supervision is costly to victims, families, and organizations. Dr. Courtright will discuss his Kanter Award winning research which answers the more critical question of why supervisors behave abusively toward subordinates, in an effort to understand its causes and decrease its occurrence.

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2017 Kanter Award Article: Courtright, S. H., Gardner, R. G., Smith, T. A., McCormick, B. W., & Colbert, A. E. (2016). My family made me do it: A cross-domain, self-regulatory perspective on antecedents to abusive supervision. Academy of Management Journal, 59, 1630-1652. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amj.2013.1009

  • Friday, April 27
  • Krannert Center, Room 124
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
  • The Kanter Lecture Series is free and open to the public.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Stephen Courtright is an associate professor and Presidential Impact Fellow in the Department of Management at Mays Business School. His research focuses on bad bosses and dysfunctional teams, and what organizations can do to prevent both. His research has been published in leading scholarly journals and has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and U.S. News and World Report, among others. He is the recipient of several research awards and serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management HR Division. As a teacher, he has received the Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award and was named a Faculty Fellow for Innovation in High-Impact Learning Experiences.

SPONSORED BY

The Center for Families
Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Krannert School of Management
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Sociology 
Department of Human Development and Family Studies