Exploring the Influence of Ethical Leadership on Voice Behavior: How Leader-Member Exchange, Psychological Safety and Psychological Empowerment Influence Employees’ Willingness to Speak Out

The study of voice behavior examines the inclination of staff and team members to speak up and contribute ideas to the team. In this article, we investigate how factors such as leader-member exchange (LMX), psychological safety and psychological empowerment influence such behavior. Our findings, whi...

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Autores principales: Hu, Yixin, Zhu, Liping, Zhou, Mengmeng, Li, Jie, Maguire, Phil, Sun, Haichao, Wang, Dawei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30258392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01718
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Li, Jie
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description The study of voice behavior examines the inclination of staff and team members to speak up and contribute ideas to the team. In this article, we investigate how factors such as leader-member exchange (LMX), psychological safety and psychological empowerment influence such behavior. Our findings, which are based on a sample of 308 employees working for a state-owned telecommunications company in China, indicate that ethical leadership promotes employees’ voice behavior through enhanced LMX, which also leads to greater feelings of psychological safety and psychological empowerment. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-61438382018-09-26 Exploring the Influence of Ethical Leadership on Voice Behavior: How Leader-Member Exchange, Psychological Safety and Psychological Empowerment Influence Employees’ Willingness to Speak Out Hu, Yixin Zhu, Liping Zhou, Mengmeng Li, Jie Maguire, Phil Sun, Haichao Wang, Dawei Front Psychol Psychology The study of voice behavior examines the inclination of staff and team members to speak up and contribute ideas to the team. In this article, we investigate how factors such as leader-member exchange (LMX), psychological safety and psychological empowerment influence such behavior. Our findings, which are based on a sample of 308 employees working for a state-owned telecommunications company in China, indicate that ethical leadership promotes employees’ voice behavior through enhanced LMX, which also leads to greater feelings of psychological safety and psychological empowerment. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6143838/ /pubmed/30258392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01718 Text en Copyright © 2018 Hu, Zhu, Zhou, Li, Maguire, Sun and Wang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the originalpublication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice.No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with theseterms.
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title_short Exploring the Influence of Ethical Leadership on Voice Behavior: How Leader-Member Exchange, Psychological Safety and Psychological Empowerment Influence Employees’ Willingness to Speak Out
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30258392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01718
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