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Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange
Building upon social exchange theory and the current voice research, we posit that employee workplace “currencies of exchange” with the leader (i.e., social currency and work-related currency) are key predictors of employee promotive and prohibitive voice. Furthermore, we distinguish between the dif...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7198839/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32411036 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00589 |
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description | Building upon social exchange theory and the current voice research, we posit that employee workplace “currencies of exchange” with the leader (i.e., social currency and work-related currency) are key predictors of employee promotive and prohibitive voice. Furthermore, we distinguish between the different roles of social currency and work-related currency in predicting promotive and prohibitive voice, respectively. More importantly, this study further explores the moderating effects of two important individual characteristics, psychological safety and power distance orientation, on the relationships between currencies and voice. We randomly sampled 598 Chinese employees via an online survey platform to test our hypotheses. Our results show that both social currency and work-related currency are determinants of promotive voice and prohibitive voice. Moreover, the boundary conditions for the two kinds of currencies are different. Specifically, employee psychological safety strengthens the influence of social currency on both types of employee voice, while employee power distance orientation could only amplify the relationship between work-related currency and promotive voice. Our research provides important implications for both theory and practice. Limitations and future directions are also discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-71988392020-05-14 Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange Zhou, Qiwei Huo, Da Wu, Fan Front Psychol Psychology Building upon social exchange theory and the current voice research, we posit that employee workplace “currencies of exchange” with the leader (i.e., social currency and work-related currency) are key predictors of employee promotive and prohibitive voice. Furthermore, we distinguish between the different roles of social currency and work-related currency in predicting promotive and prohibitive voice, respectively. More importantly, this study further explores the moderating effects of two important individual characteristics, psychological safety and power distance orientation, on the relationships between currencies and voice. We randomly sampled 598 Chinese employees via an online survey platform to test our hypotheses. Our results show that both social currency and work-related currency are determinants of promotive voice and prohibitive voice. Moreover, the boundary conditions for the two kinds of currencies are different. Specifically, employee psychological safety strengthens the influence of social currency on both types of employee voice, while employee power distance orientation could only amplify the relationship between work-related currency and promotive voice. Our research provides important implications for both theory and practice. Limitations and future directions are also discussed. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7198839/ /pubmed/32411036 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00589 Text en Copyright © 2020 Zhou, Huo and Wu. 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 original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Zhou, Qiwei Huo, Da Wu, Fan Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange |
title | Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange |
title_full | Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange |
title_fullStr | Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange |
title_full_unstemmed | Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange |
title_short | Different Workplace Currencies and Employee Voice: From the Multidimensional Approach of Leader–Member Exchange |
title_sort | different workplace currencies and employee voice: from the multidimensional approach of leader–member exchange |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7198839/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32411036 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00589 |
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