This book asks the crucial question: When does high performance supervision become abusive supervision?

This book asks the crucial question: When does high performance supervision become abusive supervision? As more organizations push to adopt high performance work practices (HPWP), the onus increasingly falls on supervisors to do whatever it takes to maximize the productivity of their work teams. In this rigorous, research-based volume, international contributors offer insight into how and when seemingly-beneficial workplace practices cross the line from motivation to abuse. By reviewing critical issues in both high performance work practices and abusive supervision, it illuminates the crossover between these two modes of work, and forges a path for future scholarship.

'I'm delighted to recommend this volume and hopeful that it will augur new ways of thinking about how HPWPs can be implemented with some sense of confidence.' -Bennett J. Tepper, The Ohio State University, From the Preface