在“浑浊的水域”中取得领先:政治技巧、组织政治和领导评价的员工晋升

IF 2.6 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Chang-Jun Li , Kunjing Li , Yidong Tu , Lanyue Fan , Cheng Xu , Hui Zhang
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虽然有政治技巧的员工更有可能得到晋升,但他们如何在组织政治中获得晋升还不清楚——在组织政治中,晋升不是基于工作表现和功绩,而是基于政治和关系。根据社会信息加工理论,我们认为组织政治可以增加而不是阻碍那些具有政治技能的员工的晋升机会。我们的理由是,当感知到高(相对于低)的组织政治水平时,这些员工可能会更积极地与他们的领导培养理想的领导-成员交换(LMX)关系,从而获得更高的领导对他们的晋升性的评价。利用从三波、多来源的实地调查中收集的数据,我们发现,组织政治强化了而不是减弱了政治技能对LMX的积极影响,从而提高了领导者的可晋升性。这些发现表明,传统上被视为基于绩效的晋升障碍的组织实践,比如组织政治,可能会成为某些群体的“浑水”,有利于基于关系的晋升,尤其是那些善于利用政治技巧与领导者建立密切关系的人。
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Getting ahead in “murky waters”: Political skill, organizational politics, and leader-rated employee promotability
While employees with political skill are more likely to be promoted, it remains unclear how they navigate promotion under organizational politics—where promotions are based not on job performance and merit but on politics and relationships. Drawing from social information processing theory, we contend that organizational politics can enhance, rather than hinder, the promotion opportunities of those politically skilled employees. We reason that when perceiving a high (vs. low) level of organizational politics, these employees may more actively cultivate desirable leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships with their leaders, thereby earning higher leader ratings of their promotability. Using data collected from a three-wave, multi-source field survey, we found that organizational politics accentuated, rather than attenuated, the positive effect of political skill on LMX, consequently elevating leader-rated promotability. These findings suggest that organizational practices conventionally perceived as hindrances to performance-based promotion, such as organizational politics, may serve as “murky waters” conducive to relationship-based promotion for certain cohorts, particularly those adept at using political skill to build close relationships with leaders.
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CiteScore
8.50
自引率
4.70%
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577
审稿时长
41 days
期刊介绍: Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.
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