Special Issue on Corporate Transformation in the People's Republic of China: Guanxi Practices and Trust in Management: A Procedural Justice Perspective

By Chao-chuan Chen, Ya-Ru Chen, Katherine Xin. Organ. Sci., 2004

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Taking a procedural justice perspective, we examined the effect of guanxi practices in human resources management (i.e., making human resources management decisions on the basis of personal relationships) on employees' trust in management in Chinese organizations. Two studies were conducted. In the first, a survey study, we found a negative effect of guanxi practices on trust in management, which was mediated by perceived procedural justice. In the second, an experimental study, we found that the negative effect of guanxi practices varied as a function of guanxi bases: favoring a nephew or a hometown fellow lowered trust, but favoring a college schoolmate or a close friend did not. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Guanxi Dynamics: Shifts in the Closeness of Ties Between Chinese Coworkers (2008, background): “Some authors warn that these particular relationships can benefit the parties involved but bring harm to the organization (Chen, Chen, and Xin, 2004; Chen, Chen, and Meindl, 2006; Gold, 1985).”
Effects of trust and psychological contract violation on authentic leadership and organizational deviance (2013, background): “, 2007; Dirks and Ferrin, 2002) and psychological contract violation (Chen et al., 2004; Robinson and Morrison, 1995; Chiu and Peng, 2008; Wang, 2011) have moderating effects.”
Competitive position, managerial ties, and profitability of foreign firms in China: an interactive perspective (2009, background): “For example, Chen, Chen, and Xin (2004) find that the practice of ties in human resource management reduces employees’ trust in management.”
Asian Management Research: Status Today and Future Outlook (2008, unknown): “For example, Chen et al. (2004) emphasized guanxi, a specific institutional factor in the Chinese culture, and examined how this would affect trust in the management of organizations.”
Supervisor–Subordinate Guanxi: Developing a Three-Dimensional Model and Scale (2009, unknown): “We chose these three criterion variables because previous research has examined the effects of supervisor–subordinate guanxi on commitment, turnover intention (e.g., Farh et al., 1998), and procedural justice perceptions (e.g., Chen et al., 2004) using the categorical measure of guanxi.”
At What Level (and in Whom) We Trust (2012, background): “Further, research on the team referent has yet to examine the processes of trust violation and repair.”
The role of managers' political networking and functional experience in new venture performance: Evidence from China's transition economy (2007, background): “Ties or guanxi based on family, relatives, hometown connections, schoolmates, or even colleagues are all-important in Chinese society (Chen, Chen, and Xin, 2004).”
Where (who) are collectives in collectivism? Toward conceptual clarification of individualism and collectivism. (2007, background): “(2002) 30 0 16 53 0 14 47 0 30:0 Kashima & Hardie (2000) 30 10 33 10 33 10 33 0 0 10:10 Yamaguchi (1994) 10 0 0 5 50 0 5 50 0:10 Chen et al. (2002) 8 0 2 25 1 12 1 12 4 50 3:5 Total (all scales combined) 408 61 15 146 36 48 12 88 22 42 10 234:90”
Feeling trusted by business leaders in China: Antecedents and the mediating role of value congruence (2007, result): “A recent study on guanxi (the ties between two individuals) practices further supports this relationship: recruitment through guanxi brought detrimental procedural justice perceptions and negative trust relationships between management and subordinates ( Chen, Chen, & Xin, 2004 ).”
How Distinctive Are Indigenous Ways of Achieving Influence? A Comparative Study of Guanxi, Wasta, Jeitinho, and “Pulling Strings” (2012, background): “Thus, the types of relationship on which wasta rests may be changing, just as C. C. Chen et al. (2004) have found for guanxi.”