Employee Behaviors, Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi, and Workplace Exclusion

New-entry employees expect to be accepted rather than to be excluded after the organizational entry. The paper attempts to propose a model to examine the process through which employees can be exempt from exclusion in the organization as a "political arena". We argue that an employee, in order not to be excluded, would like to perform high-quality in-role and extra-role behaviors and also develop good guanxi with his or her supervisor. The study collects matched data including 343 employees, 662 colleagues, and 343 direct supervisors to test hypotheses. Statistical analyses show that: employee job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and supervisor-subordinate guanxi are negatively related to workplace exclusion. Implications and limitations are offered.