Abstract
This paper examines how employees with perfectionism affect their perception of job stress and job burnout. The role of a perfectionist supervisor on the relationship between a perfectionist employee and job stress was also explored. Data was collected from 239 team members and 63 team leaders comprising 63 R&D teams in high-tech industry. Hypotheses were tested with both hierarchical liner modeling (HLM) and multiple regression analyses. At the individual level, results support the relationships between maladaptive perfectionism, job stress, and job burnout. In addition, job stress mediates the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and job burnout. At the group level, results show that a leader with maladaptive perfectionism moderates the relationship between employee with maladaptive perfectionism and job stress.