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- Title
Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi and Job Satisfaction Among Migrant Workers in China.
- Authors
Li, Jie; Wang, Wangshuai; Sun, Gong; Jiang, Zhou; Cheng, Zhiming
- Abstract
In urban China, improving rural-urban migrant workers’ subjective wellbeing has become an important goal for workplaces and local governments. Drawing from the social capital theory and using original survey data, we examine the relationship between migrant workers’ guanxi (‘personal relations’ in the Chinese context) with their supervisors and their job satisfaction. Our results show that supervisor-subordinate guanxi is positively related to migrant workers’ job satisfaction. This relationship is mediated by network resources and personal power, which serve as their social resources in workplaces. Our study contributes to the positive psychology literature by understanding the role of guanxi in shaping Chinese migrant workers’ job satisfaction. Implications and future research directions are discussed.
- Subjects
LEGAL status of migrant labor; SERVICES for migrant labor; MIGRANT labor -- Social conditions; ASSIMILATION of immigrants; JOB satisfaction
- Publication
Social Indicators Research, 2018, Vol 139, Issue 1, p293
- ISSN
0303-8300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11205-016-1471-6