Yang, Huadong and Van de Vliert, E. and Shi, K. (2005) Siding in a workplace dispute in China: the impact of legitimacy, sanction, and Guanxi. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management 5 (3), pp. 329-347. ISSN 1470-5958.
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Abstract
Employees in the role of outsider can be faced with a dispute between colleagues. Taking sides is a crucially important, yet neglected tactic in handling disputes. In a study of 226 Chinese employees, we investigated the influence of employees’ moral and expedient orientations on their siding intentions in a workplace dispute characterized by different distributions of legitimacy, negative sanctions and guanxi. Results indicate that legitimacy information leads moral-oriented employees to side with a legitimacy party whereas sanction information leads expedient-oriented employees to side with a sanction party. However, the Chinese employees also take guanxi into account. Guanxi as contrasting information decreased both the extent to which the strong-moral, weak-expedient-oriented Chinese employees sided with a legitimacy party, and the extent to which weak-moral, strong-expedient-oriented employees sided with a sanction party. Implications of these results for developing a universal theory of siding are discussed.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | expedient orientation, guanxi, moral orientation, outsiders, siding |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Depositing User: | Huadong Yang |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2013 10:08 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:02 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6217 |
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