| Predictors of Employee Attitudes toward Strikes in Multinational Corporations in China: A Multilevel Relational Model |
Received:October 14, 2017 Revised:October 14, 2017 |
Key Words: Attitudes toward strike, reciprocity norm, industrial relations climate, leader-member exchange (LMX) |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | ying chen* | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Labor strikes are on the rise in China; therefore, it is important to study what predicts Chinese workers’ attitudes toward strikes. Using social exchange theory as an overarching framework, we extended past research on this subject by investigating the antecedents of employees’ strike attitudes from a relational perspective that included employee–employer relations, labor–management relations, and leader–member relations. The results obtained from a multilevel and multi-source sample of more than 1,600 employees in 38 MNCs based in China showed that employee-employer relations indicated by a negative reciprocity norm is related positively to employees’ attitudes toward striking. Leader member relations indicated by leader member exchange (LMX) is not significantly related to strike attitudes. Organizational-level cooperative IR climate is related negatively to employees’ strike attitudes even after controlling for individual-level perceptions of IR climate. |
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