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Political Skill, Gender, and Social Network Positioning of Chinese Employees |
Jun Yang1(),Chao Liu2(),Qianghong Zhang3(),Wenwen Zhao4(),Chenxi Wang5() |
1. School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China 2. School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China 3. School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China 4. School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China 5. School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China |
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Abstract We collected data from 156 Chinese hospital employees to investigate how political skill and gender affect their advice and friendship network positioning. We found employees with high levels of political skill are more likely to proactively seek friendship ties, while political skill does not affect employees’ advice networks overall. In addition, results show that for men, those with high levels of political skill have lower in-degree centrality in advice and friendship networks than those with less political skill. Political skill does not affect women’s network positions.
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Keywords
political skill
gender
social networks
Chinese organizations
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Issue Date: 23 October 2015
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