Background: Abusive supervision allows nurses to develop a sense of unfairness towards their hospital that
leading some nurses to engage in workplace deviance behaviors as a result Aim: to investigate relationship of abusive
supervision and organizational justice with workplace deviance behavior among nurses at Mansoura University Children
Hospital. Methods: A descriptive, correlational design was utilized with convenience sample of all available nurses at
least one-year experience at Mansoura University Children Hospital. Tools of data collection were Abusive Supervision
Scale, Organizational Justice Scale and Egyptian Nursing Work Deviant Scale. Results: Majority of the studied nurses
saw that level of abusive supervision at workplace was low (60.5%), Most of the studied nurses saw that level of
organizational justice at workplace was moderate (46.2%), Majority of the studied nurses saw that level of workplace
deviance behaviors was moderate low (91.3%) and there was statistically positive relationship between abusive
supervision and workplace deviance behavior as perceived by the studied nurses but there was negative relationship
between organizational justice and workplace deviance behavior. Conclusion: There was a statistically positive
association between abusive supervision and workplace deviance behavior, while there was a negative relationship
between organizational justice and workplace deviance behavior as observed by the nurses at Mansoura University
Children Hospital. Recommendations: Future research could concentrate on longitudinal study designs to further
investigate the effects of abusive supervision and organizational justice on workplace deviant, focus on how abusive
supervision, organizational justice and work place deviance affect nurse performance,