Understanding mentoring relationships in China: Towards a Confucian model

Zhou, Abby Jingzi; Lapointe, Émilie; Zhou, Steven Shijin

doi:10.1007/s10490-018-9589-5

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“…Each of these bases can be framed as a ‘social string’ that connects two or more parties in both guan dyads and a xi network, whereas a set of these bases form multiple and diverse strings that can delineate the multiplexity of social ties. Multiplexity refers to the co-occurrence or overlapping of multiple bases of interaction (Verbrugge, 1979), which could be different roles in exchange (e.g., Chinese mentorship, with the teacher as an adopted father and student as an adopted son, in Zhou, Lapointe, & Zhou, 2018; supplier as buyer, in Shipilov & Li, 2012), and different logics of exchange (e.g., instrumental logic for economic exchange and sentimental logic for social exchange; Uzzi, 1996, 1997) at either the dyadic or network level.…”

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Reconceptualizing and Redirecting Research on Guanxi: ‘Guan-Xi’ Interaction to Form a Multicolored Chinese Knot

Zhou

et al. 2019

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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Guanxiis one of the most popular topics in Chinese and Western scholarship concerning social ties in China. However, several problems in research onguanxipersist, and multiple debates are still ongoing without much consensus in sight. This study has two goals. First, we offer a systematic review of the current literature onguanxi, especially by differentiatingguandyads fromxinetworks. This reconceptualization ofguanxienables us to clarify the concept ofguanxiby differentiating its two dimensions. Second, based on this literature review, we propose a redirection of future research onguanxisuch thatguandyads andxinetworks are not examined in isolation; rather, their holistic and dynamic interaction is the most fruitful avenue for future research, especially the four mechanisms of their interaction. The proposed reconceptualization and redirection are our two contributions to the literature.

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Section: Redirecting Future Researchmentioning

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Reconceptualizing and Redirecting Research on Guanxi: ‘Guan-Xi’ Interaction to Form a Multicolored Chinese Knot

Zhou

et al. 2019

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“…In the mentoring literature, researchers have called for investigations into the moderating role of cultural value orientation (C. Chen, Liao, & Wen, ). Recently, mentoring scholars have also suggested that the unique characteristics of Chinese mentoring relationships should be explored (Zhou, Lapointe, & Zhou, ). We contend that, as a classical cultural value, traditionality or the extent of individual traditional values (Schwartz, ) may moderate the effects of mentorship quality.…”

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The impact of mentoring quality on protégés' organization‐based self‐esteem and proactive behavior: The moderating role of traditionality

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Kwan

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Human Resource Management

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Based on self‐consistency theory, this study examined the relationship between mentoring quality as perceived by protégés and protégés' proactive behavior. It focused on the mediating role of organization‐based self‐esteem (OBSE) and the moderating role of traditionality. To examine these relationships, we administrated three‐wave surveys to 237 subordinate–supervisor dyads in a construction enterprise. The results of hierarchical linear modeling demonstrated that (a) mentoring quality and proactive behavior had a positive relationship; (b) OBSE mediated this relationship; and (c) traditionality strengthened both the relationship between mentoring quality and OBSE and the indirect effect of mentoring quality on proactive behavior via OBSE. Our findings have theoretical and practical implications for research on mentoring and proactive behavior.

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“…First, mentors can serve as role models for mentees. They convey behaviors, values, and attitudes to mentees (Zhou et al, 2019) (Kwan et al, 2010). Second, support from mentors motivates mentees to develop crucial capabilities to achieve career-related goals.…”

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Exploring regulatory fit between service relationships and appeals in co-production

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Purpose This paper aims to explore how different service relationships (mentoring relationship versus partnering relationship) in service co-production affect service outcomes. Specifically, it aims to explore whether the effects of service relationships on customers’ intention to purchase the service are contingent upon service appeals’ regulatory focus (promotion versus prevention focus) and when the regulatory fit effects exist. Design/methodology/approach Three experimental studies were conducted to test hypotheses. ANOVA and bootstrapping were used to analyze the data. Findings The findings of the three experiments provide convergent evidence for the hypotheses. Specifically, when customers view service employees as mentors (versus partners) in service co-production, promotion-focused (versus prevention focused) service appeals effectively enhance customers’ intention to purchase the service because customers experience a regulatory fit. Moreover, the regulatory fit effects are strengthened or attenuated according to customers’ subjective social status. Practical implications Service firms should adopt promotion-focused (versus prevention-focused) service appeals if employees and customers are having mentoring (versus partnering) relationships, especially when customers have higher (lower) social status. Originality/value To better manage service co-production, this paper investigates beneficial outcomes of mentoring and partnering relationships from a regulatory fit perspective. It highlights the importance of compatibility between service relationship and service appeals’ regulatory focus and demonstrates a novel regulatory fit effect. It also uncovers engagement as the underlying mechanism for the regulatory-fit effect and identifies social class as a boundary condition.

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Understanding mentoring relationships in China: Towards a Confucian model

Cited by 28 publications

References 83 publications

Reconceptualizing and Redirecting Research on Guanxi: ‘Guan-Xi’ Interaction to Form a Multicolored Chinese Knot

Reconceptualizing and Redirecting Research on Guanxi: ‘Guan-Xi’ Interaction to Form a Multicolored Chinese Knot

The impact of mentoring quality on protégés' organization‐based self‐esteem and proactive behavior: The moderating role of traditionality

Exploring regulatory fit between service relationships and appeals in co-production

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