Political Skill, Supervisor–Subordinate Guanxi and Career Prospects in Chinese Firms

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Abusive supervision and frontline employees' service performance (2012, background): “In fact, Chinese employees are motivated to develop supervisor–subordinate guanxi (indigenous interpersonal connections) and to establish friendship or a close relationship with their supervisors outside the work environment (Wei, Liu, Chen, & Wu, 2010 ).”
Risk management capability building in SMEs: A social capital perspective (2013, unknown): “The culture of Chinese collective society is about ‘guanxi’ – ‘face-value’ and connections (Wei et al., 2010).”
How and When Compulsory Citizenship Behavior Leads to Employee Silence: A Moderated Mediation Model Based on Moral Disengagement and Supervisor–Subordinate Guanxi Views (2017, background): “Specifically, Chinese supervisors generally classify their subordinates into ‘‘insiders’’ and ‘‘outsiders’’ based on guanxi quality and provide the former with more emotional supports and workrelated resources (Law et al. 2000; Wei et al. 2010).”
Explaining supervisor–subordinate guanxi and subordinate performance through a conservation of resources lens (2019, background): “The ensuing social tie has been described as a mentoring relationship (Scandura and Williams, 2004) in which the leader acts as a coach and invests in the employee’s career success (Wei et al., 2010).”