Muhammad Zeshan Naseem2025-08-072025-08-072020-07-10https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/4592Turnover is considered as a major challenge for management in all trades and industries. Organizations that are unable to cope and address employee turnover, have to tolerate accruing cost and consequences. Setting premise of social exchange theory, aim of this research is to investigate whether turnover intentions of employees are impacted by Abusive supervision, besides that in this present research work perceptions of organizational politics (POPS) was tested performing mediating role. This is a cross sectional research based on deductive approach. 300 employees working in the footwear manufacturing sector were requested to provide feedback on questionnaire using the convenience sampling technique. 216 questionnaires were up to the mark and used in SPSS for statistical testing. The results obtained from SPSS 21 indicates; Abusive supervision holds positive association with turnover intentions and POPS. POPS holds positive association with turnover intentions of employees. Moreover, finding revealed that POPS partially mediated the positive relationship of abusive supervision and employee turnover intentions. Results may be utilized as a milestone for drafting training and development programs aimed to educating and supporting supervisors and their subordinates to formulate conducive working environment for everyone. This study is among few empirical studies to probe and report the negative influence of Abusive supervision on turnover intentions with an insight of POPS.en-USThesis