Title :
The Effects of Machiavellianism on Employee´s Political Behavior and Career Development: The Moderating Role of Emotional Labor
Author_Institution :
Bus. Sch., Univ. of Int. Bus. & Ecomonics, Beijing, China
Abstract :
The study explores the effects of Machiavellianism on political behavior and career development while emotional labor as a moderator among a sample of Chinese public servants. Our quantitative data support that Machiavellianism has positive effect on public servants´ political behavior and promotes female public servants to advance up the organizational ladder, however, it hinders male public servants´ career development. Moreover, emotional labor moderates the relationship between Machiavellianism and promotion times of male public servants. Corresponding implications of the results are discussed.
Keywords :
behavioural sciences; government; human factors; organisational aspects; personnel; professional aspects; Chinese public servants; Machiavellianism effects; emotional labor; employee career development; employee political behavior; organizational ladder; Book reviews; Career development; Correlation; Engineering profession; Lead; Organizations;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science (MASS), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5325-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5326-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2010.5577197
