Empirical Study On The Influence Mechanism Of Political Skills On Employees’ Job Stress

The Main topic of this paper is on the influence mechanism of enterprise employees’ political skill on their job stress.Based on the questionnaire survey data from531emplyees in12enterprises from Beijing,Shenyang,Chongqing,Ningbo,Dalian and some other cities.Due to the geographical employees, work experience,engaged in the field is not the same,so make sure that this study will not be too similar to get deviation variables such as geography,industry,size,position level.Author analyzes the leader-member exchange(LMX) as mediate variable and moderate variable respectively on the influence of employees’ political skill on their job stress.Then find political skill study as a influenceing factor of political skill,and how much it improve the empolyees’ political skill.The following points aroused author’s research interests:When the peolpe gathered into groups,the power would play a role. People want to find a good location to the impact of the implementation,and to receive remuneration achieved career development (Culbert,1980). When the action of employees in the organization of their behavior, they transferred to the political activities. Those superb political people to more effectively use their powers (Ferris,2005). Organization has become a stage with power and interest when the empolyees execute their power in organization.Political behavior generate in the execution power as a method to gain personal interest. Political behavior offer a strong chanllgen to chinese organization by strong traditional culture.Chinese people always pay attention in interpersonal relationship,the"office politics" always give employee some puzzle,and it also cause the employees’ job stress.In addition,bese on the individual difference of every staff, their political skill is not possible all the same.In this way,how is the empolyees’political skill in chinese culture background?What is the influence mechanism to job stress?And study and trainning can improve the political skill level?Some question like that,it is nessceary for us to answer by theory and empirical study.The feature and value of this paper lies in the following parts:(1)there is a big difference with the research before which treat empolyees’ political skill is in same type,thie paper foucs on gourp dividing of political skill.Divide the empolyees’political skill as some group in chinese traditional culture,and discuss their characteristic.(2)analyzes LMX as mediate variableand moderate variable respectively, discuss the role of LMX on the influence of employees’political skill on their job stress.(3) Discuss political skill study role from trainning and learnning view. Find the political skill. study as a methods to manage and improve empolyees’political skill.According to above consideration,this paper develops the discussion focusing on the international leading research literatures on political skill,LMXjob stress and political skill study. We have organizaed this paper into8chapters.Chapterl, introduction. This chapter introduces the research background,theoretical and realistic significance,clarifies the3focus problem and the goal of this research.and put forward the ideas,content and innovation points of this paper.Chapter2,literature review.First of all,this chapter reviews the literature of political skill from concept,concept development,content,measurement. Second of all,this chapter reviews the concept, theoretical of LMX. Third of all,reviews the concept and development of job stress. At last, reviews the concept and developement of political skill study.Chapter3,political skill dimensionally and measure in chinese context.This chapter collects the description of political behavior from interviewees, conclude the key point by Ground Theory,analyze the details,get intial dimensional.Do exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, Discriminant Validity, Convergent validity by SPSS16.0,get the sacle which is apply in the chinese context, lay a solid foundation for following research.Chapter4,the direct influence effect of employees’ political skill on job stress,and group dividing of political skill.In this chapter,author makes CFA on job stress by SPSS16.0and AMOS17.0,then make Cluster Analysis of political skill,get specific group,and analyze the directinfluence effect of empolyees’ political skill on job stress.Chapter5,the mediate effect of LMX on the relationship between empolyees’ political skill on job stress.In this chapter,authormakes EFA and CFA of LMX by SPSS16.0and AMOS17.0.Then,make multilayer regression analysis to test the mediate effect of LMX on the relationship of empolyees’ political skill and job stress by SPSS16.0.Chapter6,the moderate effect of LMX on the relationship between empolyees’ political skill on job stress.In this chapter,make multilayer regression with SPSS16.0to test the moderate effect of LMX on the relationship of empolyees’ political skill and job stress.Chapter7, analyze the direct influence effect of political skill study on political skill. In this chapter make EFA and CFA of political skill study with SPSS16.0and AMOS17.0.Then analyze the direct influence effect of political skill study on political skill.Chapter8, conclusion and enlightenment. In this chapter conclude the main conclusion, and give extended discussions on several enlightenment issues. At last gives the limitations and future development directions of this research.This dissertation reached the following conclusions:Conclusion1:The political skill can be divided into5dimensions in Chinese context. It is harmonious interpersonal, situation astuteness, face business, trickery use, networking ability. As can be seen in the caomparison of the reliability and validity scales with western political skills and job performance explanatory power superior to the western scale,local scale.Conclusion2:Clustering all kinds of political skills have their own characteristics.Specifically,in accordance with the position of the center point of view,group1can be summed up as"naive confidence,communication and interpersonal group",group2can be summarized as "fame and fortune, conform to the situation group",group3can be summarized as "integrity and independence of calm on the sidelines group",group4can be summarized as "surface sincere,speculative franchise group".Conclusion3:The direct impact of the various types of group political skills to job stress.Taxa before groups job stress of the main source of networking ability,and operated through the face business,trickery use,as well as improve the situation astuteness reduced stress.The job stress of group1comes mainly from the ability to networking ability,and face business situation astuteness,use of trickery,harmonious interpersonal incressed will cause the gourp1’s stress decreases.The job stress of group2comes mainly from the face business,use of trickery and networking ability,and harmonious interpersonal and situation astuteness would increase their job stress.The group3’job stress comes mainly from the face buiness,harmonious interpersonal,use of trickery,networking ability would make therir stress decreses.The group4’s job stress comes mainly from the use of trickery,networking ability,situation astuteness, and harmonious interpersonal,face business would make their stress be lower.Conclusion4:The mediation role is different of LMX relationship of each group and the political skill of employees job stress. Among them, before group divided, the LMX between political skill and job stress play fully mediated.After group divided,for group1,group4,the LMX between political skill and job stress paly a fully mediated.For group2,group3,the LMX between political skill and job stress play partial mediated. Conclusion5:The moderation role is different of LMX of each group and the political ksill of employees job stress.Among them,before group divided,LMX between political skill and job stress is not a moderation role.For group1,group2,group3,group4,LMX between political skill and job stress is not a moderation role as well.Conclusion6:LMX between the political skills and job stress play an mediation role rather than moderation role.Specifically,Before group divided,for group1,group4,The LMX between political skill and job stress play a full mediation role rather than moderation role.For group2, group3, the LMX between political skill and job stress play a partial mediation rather than moderation role.Conclusion7:The direct dffect of political skill learning of the political skill of each group is different.Before group divided,political skill learning helped the situation astuteness most,followed by the use of trickery,networking ability,harmonious interpersonal and face business.After group divided,political skill learning can not change groups’skill,and a limited impact on the political skill of group2,may become one of the ways to change their political skill level of group3,group4,the group political skills have positive effect of change in their political skill.The innovation of this study is to:(1).Base on the Chinese cultural and situational factors,develop a local scale of political skill.(2) divided the type of political skill of the staff in the Chinese context, and discriminate their characteristics,and the impact different on their job stress.(3)From the point of view of traning and learning,and to explore the political skill learning effect of political skill,find the political skill learning as management ways,to improve the political skill of employees.