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Washington, Jan 29 (ANI): Moderate exercise minimizes
supervisors' abusive behaviour towards their
subordinates, a new study has
suggested.

The work, by James Burton from Northern Illinois
University in the US and his team, shows that stressed
supervisors, struggling with time pressures, vent their
frustrations on their employees less when they get regular,
moderate
exercise.

Research shows that when a supervisor experiences workplace stress, his
or her subordinates feel they bear the brunt of that
frustration.

Burton and his team's study is the first to examine how
exercise can buffer the relationship between supervisor stress
and employee perceptions of abusive supervision or hostile
behaviour towards them.

A total of 98 MBA students from two universities in the
Midwestern United States and their 98 supervisors completed
questionnaires. Students rated their perceptions of how abusive
their current supervisor.

Supervisors answered questions about how often they exercised
and about their workplace stress, for example "working my
current job leaves me little time for other activities" or "I
have too much work and too little time to do it in".

The researchers found that, as expected, when supervisors were
stressed, their subordinates felt more victimized. However,
analyses also showed that when supervisors experienced stress,
but engaged in exercise, their subordinates reported lower
levels of abusive supervision.

Interestingly, only moderate levels of exercise were necessary
to minimize abusive supervision, such as one to two days of
exercise per week, and the type of exercise seemed to make
little difference.

"It appears that the simple act of exercising minimizes the
negative effects of supervisor workplace stress on
subordinates. Wellness programs, often inclusive of exercise
components, have been advocated to control workplace stress for
years. This study adds support to their specific relevancy in
smoothing supervisor-subordinate relationships," the
researchers said.

The study has been published in Springer's Journal of Business
and Psychology. (ANI)

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