Former colleague relationship and the rebuilding process of superior-subordinate relationship
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2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Lee, Wei
Abstract
Past researches tend to see “relation” as a stable structure. After retrospection of relevant researches about relationship in social interaction, social cognition, and the Chinese point of view, this study took “dynamic perspective” to probe into the relational changes between two collaborators that one is later promoted and become supervisor of the other and how they respond and adapt to the situation. This research discussed “former colleague relationship and the rebuilding process of new relationship between superior and subordinate” by grounded theory, interviewing 7 pairs, 14 survey candidates in all, with semi-structure interview method. Data analysis shows that when the dyad sample in the same working situation underwent a relational transformation in qualitative structure, they tend to generate two separate initial role definition which are “formal role definition” that responds to the organizational demand and “mutual role definition” that comes from specific interaction experiences of each other. The two independent role definition will merge gradually in the later interact process and become a more precise final role definition. After the formation of final role definition, both sides develop “acknowledgement of the new relationship” through “acknowledgement of the responsibility toward the other”, either the promoted one or the subordinate is likely to arise the sense of 「working role responsibility」and「mutual role responsibility」. If the cognition of responsibility from both sides could match with each other, the new relationship become stabilized, the subsequent interaction pattern and behavior of the other can be more precisely predicted and gripped. Otherwise, the new relationship reveals unsteadiness, the subsequent interaction pattern and behavior of the other is hard to predict, mutual accommodation of interaction is imperative to reconcile bilateral behavior and recognition.
Subjects
working relationship
role theory
role cognition
dynamic relationship
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