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Are guanxi-type supervisor-subordinate relationships culture-general? An eight-nation test of measurement invariance
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posted on 2023-06-08, 19:32 authored by Peter B Smith, Arzu Wasti, Lusine Grigoryan, Mustafa Achoui, Olwen Bedford, Pawan Budhwar, Nadya Lebedeva, ChanHoong Leong, Claudio TorresThree dimensions of subordinate–supervisor relations (affective attachment, deference to supervisor, and personal-life inclusion) that had been found by Y. Chen, Friedman, Yu, Fang, and Lu to be characteristic of a guanxi relationship between subordinates and their supervisors in China were surveyed in Taiwan, Singapore, and six non-Chinese cultural contexts. The Affective Attachment and Deference subscales demonstrated full metric invariance whereas the Personal-Life Inclusion subscale was found to have partial metric invariance across all eight samples. Structural equation modeling revealed that the affective attachment dimension had a cross-nationally invariant positive relationship to affective organizational commitment and a negative relationship to turnover intention. The deference to the supervisor dimension had invariant positive relationships with both affective and normative organizational commitment. The personal-life inclusion dimension was unrelated to all outcomes. These results indicate the relevance of aspects of guanxi to superior–subordinate relations in non-Chinese cultures. Studies of indigenous concepts can contribute to a broader understanding of organizational behavior.
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Journal of Cross-Cultural PsychologyISSN
0022-0021Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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6Volume
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921-938Department affiliated with
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