机构地区: 中国人民大学商学院
出 处: 《心理学报》 2008年第2期201-209,共9页
摘 要: 通过对16家制造型企业中的343个员工、662个同事及343个直接领导的配对数据进行实证分析,文章探讨了员工的组织政治技能、政治知觉,以及他们与直接上司的关系对于员工职业发展的关系。多层线性分析模型(HLM)结果表明:员工的政治技能有助于促进其与领导之间形成良好的关系(guanxi),并籍此积极影响个人在组织中的职业发展,员工-领导关系是政治技能与职业发展之间的中介变量。另外,组织政治知觉影响政治技能对领导关系的作用,在政治氛围浓重的组织中,员工-领导关系更易受到员工政治技能的影响。 As a novel concept pertaining to organizational studies, organizational politics has attracted the attention of an increasing number of researchers in multiple disciplines. Although efforts have been made for validating the perceived organizational politics scale (POPS) and exploring its antecedents, the detailed influencing process of organizational politics and its cultural implications have not been exposed to in-depth examination. To fill the gap, this study aims to address following two research questions: (1) can Chinese employees gain career development opportunities if they have a high level of political skill, and how? (2) within the context of Chinese organizations, what are the mediating and moderating mechanisms linking employees' political skills and their career development opportunities? This study explored the role of guanxi with the direct supervisor and the impact of perceived organizational politics, echoing the call for contextualizmg studies m Chinese society (Tsui, 2006) and for cross-level theorization and empirical testing (Klein & Kozlowski, 2000). In total, 426 employees in 16 Chinese manufacturing enterprises were sampled. To avoid the common method variance problem, for each of the employees, two colleagues and one direct supervisor were also invited to the survey. The final matched sample included 343 employees, 662 colleagues, and 343 direct supervisors. Among the major measures, the 18-item political skills scale was adopted from Ferris et al.'s (2005) study; employee-supervisor guanxi was measured via 6 items that were used by Law et al. (2000); and the perception of organizational politics was measured by using the indigenous scale developed by Ma et al.'s (2006). We refined this scale to suit our purpose. Cronbach's alpha values for these measures ranged from 0.70 to 0.95, indicating acceptable measurement reliabilities. In order to measure organizational political climate, POPS obtained from individuals was aggregated to the firm