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Recently, the presence of aggressive behavior from superior so-called 'Gabjil(being bossy)' in workplace has become a major social issue. Various types of negative behavior by supervisors are being reported in the media and it cause massive financial losses as well as negatively affect the company's reputation. Scholars also began to study with interest and most of the previous research revealed that abusive supervision would cause negative behavior of subordinates. However, there has been limited study on the how an individual's values affect the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinate's behavior. Since personal values would have a profound effect on member's behavior in organization, more attention should be needed by scholars on the influences of value in workplace. This study is designed in order to investigate the relationship between abusive supervision and interpersonal deviance as well as the moderating effect of traditionality. The study was conducted based on the survey of 318 Korean employees in various industries. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS23 and AMOS18. The results of this study are described below. First, we found that abusive supervision significantly increase interpersonal deviance. Second, we saw that traditionality moderated the effect of abusive supervision on interpersonal deviance. Specifically, traditionality moderated the above relationship such that they were stronger among high traditionalists than among low ones. These findings indicated evidence that traditionality is important factor between negative leadership and employee's behavior. This research further supports recommendations and managerial implications for regulating and avoiding negative behavior in workplace.