The authors recommend that people in management positions take a good look at the effects of their management styles, making a point to learn about abusivesupervision as well as the vicarious variety.
It turned out that both abusive and vicariously abusivesupervision had similar impacts on employees, with both forms leading to more job frustration, a greater likelihood of coworkers abusing one another, and a greater lack of confidence in the company as a whole.