- Title
- Workplace Guanxi: Its dispositional antecedents and mediating role in the affectivity-job satisfaction relationship
- Creator
- Zhai, Qingguo; Lindorff, Margaret; Cooper, Brian
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/55295
- Identifier
- vital:5284
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1544-7
- Identifier
- ISSN:0167-4544
- Abstract
- This paper examines dispositional sources of workplace guanxi and the mediating role of workplace guanxi on the affectivity and job satisfaction relationship. Data were collected from 808 respondents in multiple industries in a city in China's northeast. The study found that both positive affectivity and negative affectivity have an effect on supervisor-subordinate guanxi and co-worker guanxi, which supports the proposition that workplace guanxi has a dispositional source. Supervisor-subordinate guanxi has a positive relationship with job satisfaction, although co-worker guanxi is not significantly related to job satisfaction. The research also found a mediating role of supervisor-subordinate guanxi on the affectivity and job satisfaction relationship, which suggests that supervisor-subordinate guanxi can extend the influence of affectivity to job satisfaction. Taken together, these results suggest that in a high power distance country such as China, supervisor-subordinate guanxi plays a more important role than co-worker guanxi in influencing job satisfaction. Theoretically, this study suggests the as yet unexplored possibility of dispositional antecedents of workplace guanxi and the role of workplace guanxi on the relationship between dispositions and workplace attitudes such as job satisfaction. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.; C1
- Relation
- Journal of Business Ethics Vol. 117, no. 3 (2013), p. 541-551
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1503 Business and Management; 2001 Communication and Media Studies; Co-worker guanxi; Job satisfaction; Negative affectivity; Positive affectivity; Supervisor-subordinate guanxi
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