A Study On The Effects Of State-Owned Enterprises' Employees' Organizational Political Perceptions On Impression Management And In-Role Performance

In western countries, the empirical studies on organizational political perceptions have been fruitful. But it is just getting started in China. After the experience of 2000 years of bureaucratic and political history, the social and political power are highly centralized, scarce resources are highly monopolized, the high unity of political,economic and cultural structure become a feature of Chinese culture. In this context, the role of the organizational political perceptions of employees in China will inevitably different from the findings of the studies in West. And state-owned enterprises in China have the dual functions including administrative and market, They followed the tradition of bureaucratic politics, management is lack of normalization, decision making is lack of scientificity, so the phenomena of rights based,relationship-focus and the man rule rather than regulate rule is still serious. Then, this study infers that the employees'organizational perceptions and their effects are more typical, at the meanwhile, different personality have different behaviors. At the same time, because the state-owned enterprises are generally considered inefficient, their workers are often perceived as lying down on the job, working worthlessly. So this study infers that organizational political perception relates to state-owned enterprises'inefficiency. Therefore, this paper may focus on employees of state-owned enterprises, to examine how employees'perceptions of organizational politics influence their behaviors, and thus impact the performance of state-owned enterprises.On reviewing on the organizational political perception literatures, then finding out research gaps and problems not been resolved, and by combining the traditional Chinese political history and the real features of state-owned enterprises, based on social exchange theory, social cognitive theory and expectancy theory, this study constructs the research model and hypothesizes, in order to examine how employees' organizational politics affect impression management behaviors and in-role performance, as well as to explore the moderate effects of self-monitoring personality. After data analysis, the main conclusions of this study are as follows:First, in state-owned enterprises, the employees'organizational politics significantly positively impact the employees'impression management behaviors. When employees have a high degree of organizational political perceptions, their impression management behaviors will increase.Second, in state-owned enterprises, the employees'perceptions of organizational politics will be significantly negatively impact on their in-role performance. When employees have a high degree of organizational political perceptions, their in-role performance will be reduced.Third, in state-owned enterprises, the self-monitoring personality can significantly positively moderate the effects of employees'perceptions of organizational politics on their impression management behaviors. When employees perceive their superiors'political behaviors, as well as pay and promotion policies' political nature, the high self-monitoring of employees will have more impression management behaviors.Fourth, in state-owned enterprises, the self-monitoring personality can positively moderate the negative effects of employees'organizational political perceptions on in-role performance. When employees perceive their superiors'political behaviors, high self-monitoring of employees will increase their investment in their own work, so it can reduce the negative impact of organizational political perceptions.At last, in state-owned enterprises, employees'organizational perceptions are main derived from the perceptions of supervisors'political behaviors. In state-owned enterprises, compensation closely relates to promotion, because man rather than rule is more important, promotion depends upon those supervisors controlling related resources. Therefore, employees'perceptions of organizational politics are more leading from the perceptions of supervisors'political behaviors, which reveals the status of state-owned enterprises, and their institutional or cultural reasons.The contributions to business management practices of this study are as follows:First, employees'perceptions of organizational politics will increase the extra-role behaviors, such as impression management, and reduce job performance. Therefore, on management practice, managers need to correctly recognize and control employees'organizational political perceptions.Second, personality can moderate the relation between organizational political perceptions and employees'job behaviors. High self-monitoring employees not only tend to show more impression management behaviors, but also to affect their own performance. Therefore, managers need to identify employees with different personality, so as to take appropriate measures to correctly guide their behaviors.Third, normalize management institution. State-owned enterprises exist many problems and deficiencies, which promote employees'organizational perceptions. Therefore, State-owned enterprises should pay attention to the effects of institutions' incentives and constraints on employees, should establish a sound scientific management system to norm employees'behaviors gradually.At last, create a good corporate culture. Because organizational politics can not be avoided, and the Chinese state-owned enterprises are infected by traditional political culture. Therefore, enterprises should seek to change initiatively by themselves, to eliminate the negative impacts of national social culture through the company's internal culture.Finally, this study summarizes the innovations and shortages of this research, and proposes that we should emphasis on mediate and moderate variables, on development in measurement tools and research methods in future.