Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior

Supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of psychological safety in the relationships among supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected from 268 employees, and 56 were their immediate supervisors, in three Egyptian companies belonging to footwear and headgear sector. Employees and their immediate supervisors provided data on separate questionnaires and different occasions; an identification number was used to match each employee’s questionnaire with the response of his/her immediate supervisor.FindingsThe results indicated that both supportive leadership and proactive personality had a positive and significant effect on voice behavior. In addition, the results showed that psychological safety fully mediated the relationships among supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature by linking supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior. It clarifies how and why supportive leadership and proactive personality can stimulate voice behavior. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Business Emerald Publishing

Supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior

Elsaied, Mervat Mohamed
American Journal of Business , Volume 34 (1): 17 – May 16, 2019
Download PDF
17 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/supportive-leadership-proactive-personality-and-employee-voice-Qoo4al73Yo
Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited
ISSN
1935-5181
DOI
10.1108/ajb-01-2017-0004
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of psychological safety in the relationships among supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected from 268 employees, and 56 were their immediate supervisors, in three Egyptian companies belonging to footwear and headgear sector. Employees and their immediate supervisors provided data on separate questionnaires and different occasions; an identification number was used to match each employee’s questionnaire with the response of his/her immediate supervisor.FindingsThe results indicated that both supportive leadership and proactive personality had a positive and significant effect on voice behavior. In addition, the results showed that psychological safety fully mediated the relationships among supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the literature by linking supportive leadership, proactive personality and employee voice behavior. It clarifies how and why supportive leadership and proactive personality can stimulate voice behavior.

Journal

American Journal of Business – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 16, 2019

Keywords: Proactive personality; Supportive leadership; Psychological safety; Employee voice behaviour

References

  • Speaking up and speaking out: the leadership dynamics of voice in organizations
    Ashford, S.J.; Sutcliffe, K.M.; Christianson, M.K.; Greenberg, J.; Edwards, M.
  • Exploring the process of ethical leadership: the mediating role of employee voice and psychological ownership
    Avey, J.B.; Wernsing, T.S.; Palanski, M.E.
  • Innovation is not enough: climates for initiative and psychological safety, process innovations, and firm performance
    Baer, M.; Frese, M.
  • The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychology research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations
    Baron, R.M.; Kenny, D.A.
  • The proactive component of organizational behavior: a measure and correlates
    Bateman, T.S.; Crant, J.M.
  • Proactive work behavior: forward-thinking and change-oriented action in organizations
    Bindl, U.K.; Parker, S.K.
  • High-quality relationships, psychological safety, and learning from failures in work organizations
    Carmeli, A.; Gittell, J.
  • Inclusive leadership and employee involvement in creative tasks in the workplace: the mediating role of psychological safety
    Carmeli, A.; Reiter-Palmon, R.; Ziv, E.
  • Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis
    Cohen, S.; Wills, T.A.
  • Proactive behavior in organizations
    Crant, J.M.
  • Leadership behavior and employee voice: is the door really open?
    Detert, J.R.; Burris, E.
  • The meanings and purpose of employee voice
    Dundon, T.; Wilkinson, A.; Marchington, M.; Ackers, P.
  • Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams
    Edmondson, A.
  • Psychological safety: the history, renaissance, and future of an interpersonal construct
    Edmondson, A.; Lei, Z.
  • Speeding up team learning
    Edmondson, A.; Bohmer, R.M.; Pisano, G.
  • Organizational surveys: a system for employee voice
    Edmondson, V.C.
  • Psychological safety: a meta-analytic review and extension
    Frazier, M.L.; Fainshmidt, S.; Klinger, R.L.; Pezeshkan, A.; Vracheva, V.
  • Change driven by nature: a meta-analytic review of the proactive personality literature
    Fuller, J.; Marler, L.
  • An exploratory examination of voice behavior from an impression management perspective
    Fuller, J.B.; Barnett, T.; Hester, K.; Relyea, C.; Frey, L.
  • The mediating relationship of self-awareness on supervisor burnout and workgroup civility and psychological safety: a multilevel path analysis
    Hernandez, W.; Luthanen, A.; Ramsel, D.; Osatuke, K.
  • The effect of supervisor support on employee voice behavior based on the self-determination theory: the moderating effect of impression management motive
    Ho, J.-C.
  • A path–goal theory of leadership effectiveness
    House, R.J.
  • Path-goal theory of leadership
    House, R.J.; Mitchell, T.R.
  • Authentic leadership and employee voice behavior: a multi-level psychological process
    Hsiung, H.H.
  • Emotional intelligence and employee creativity: moderating role of proactive personality and organizational climate
    Jafri, M.H.; Dem, C.; Choden, S.
  • A relational approach among perceived organizational support, proactive personality and voice behaviour
    Kanten, P.; Ulker, F.E.
  • Determining sample size for research activities
    Krejcie, R.V.; Morgan, D.W.
  • Voice and cooperative behavior as contrasting forms of contextual performance: evidence of differential relationships with big five personality characteristics and cognitive ability
    LePine, J.A.; Van Dyne, L.
  • Influence of workplace ostracism on employee voice behavior
    Li, C.-F.; Tian, Y.-Z.
  • The role of proactive personality in job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior: a relational perspective
    Li, N.; Liang, J.; Crant, M.J.
  • Traditional Chinese leadership and employee voice behavior: a cross-level examination
    Li, Y.; Sun, J.-M.
  • A multi-level study on employee voice: evidence from a chain of retail stores
    Liang, J.; Tang, J.
  • Effect of organizational justice on work engagement with psychological safety as a mediator: evidence from China
    Lyu, X.
  • Voice and silence within organizations: literature review and directions for future research
    Morrison, E.W.
  • Organizational silence: a barrier to change and development in a pluralistic world
    Morrison, E.W.; Milliken, F.J.
  • Making it safe: the effects of leader inclusiveness and professional status on psychological safety and improvement efforts in health care teams
    Nembhard, I.M.; Edmondson, A.C.
  • Who speaks up at work? Dispositional influences on employees’ voice behavior
    Nikolaou, I.; Vakola, M.; Bourantas, D.
  • Employee creativity: personal and contextual factors at work
    Oldham, G.R.; Cummings, A.
  • Taking stock: integrating and differentiating multiple proactive behaviors
    Parker, S.K.; Collins, C.G.
  • Self-reports in organizational research: problems and prospects
    Podsakoff, P.M.; Organ, D.W.
  • Ethical leadership, organizational identification and employee voice: examining moderated mediation process in the Chinese insurance industry
    Qi, Y.; Ming-Xia, L.
  • Dimensions of transformational leadership: conceptual and empirical extensions
    Rafferty, A.E.; Griffin, M.A.
  • An empirical investigation of the relationship between trust, voice, and proactive personality
    Ristig, K.
  • Ethical leadership and teachers’ voice behavior: the mediating roles of ethical culture and psychological safety
    Sağnak, M.
  • Associations between supportive leadership and employees self-rated health in an occupational sample
    Schmidt, B.; Loerbroks, A.; Herr, R.M.; Wilson, M.; Bosch, J.A.; Fischer, J.E.
  • What do proactive people
    Seibert, S.E.; Kraimer, M.L.; Crant, J.M.
  • Team-member exchange, voice behavior, and creative work involvement
    Shih, H.-A.; Wijaya, N.H.S.
  • A multilevel study of supportive leadership and individual work outcomes: the mediating roles of team cooperation, job satisfaction, and team commitment
    Shin, Y.; Oh, W.-K.; Sim, C.-H.; Lee, J.-Y.
  • Employee voice and employee retention
    Spencer, D.
  • Employee silence on critical work issues: the cross level effects of procedural justice climate
    Tanngirala, S.; Ramanujam, R.
  • A personality trait-based interactionist model of job performance
    Tett, R.P.; Burnett, D.D.
  • Proactive personality and job performance: a social capital perspective
    Thompson, J.A.
  • Helping and voice extra-role behaviors: evidence of construct and predictive validity
    Van Dyne, L.; LePine, J.
  • Conceptualizing employee silence and employee voice as multidimensional constructs
    Van Dyne, L.; Ang, S.; Botero, I.C.
  • Leader personality traits and employee voice behavior: mediating roles of ethical leadership and work group psychological safety
    Walumbwa, F.O.; Schaubroeck, J.
  • Explaining benefits of employee proactive personality: the role of engagement, team proactivity composition and perceived organizational support
    Wang, Z.; Zhang, J.; Thomas, C.L.; Yu, J.; Spitzmueller, C.
  • Effects of task performance, helping, voice, and organizational loyalty on performance appraisal ratings
    Whiting, S.W.; Podsakoff, P.M.; Pierce, J.R.
  • Proactivity in the work place: looking back and looking forward
    Wu, C.; Parker, S.K.; Cameron, K.; Spreitzer, G.
  • Proactive personality and voice behavior: the influence of voice self-efficacy and delegation
    Xie, J.; Chu, X.; Zhang, J.; Huang, J.
  • Servant leadership and employee voice behavior: a cross-level investigation in China
    Yan, A.; Xiao, Y.
  • Proactive personality and career success
    Yang, F.; Chau, R.
  • The relationship between organizational authority-control and employee’s proactive behavior: the moderating role of individual proactive personality
    Yi, Z.
  • Leader–follower congruence in proactive personality and work outcomes: the mediating role of leader–member exchange
    Zhang, Z.; Wang, M.; Shi, J.