Managerial openness and employee voice: a moderated mediation model
ISSN: 1750-614X
Article publication date: 23 August 2021
Issue publication date: 25 November 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Drawing on a costs-benefit analysis perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between managerial openness and employee voice and its boundary conditions.
Design/methodology/approach
This study collected three waves of data by surveying 326 pairs of employees and their supervisors. The hypotheses were tested by using Hayes’s (2018) SPSS macro application with a bootstrap approach to obtain confidence intervals.
Findings
Managerial openness facilitates employee voice by decreasing perceived voice costs. Felt obligation positively moderates the direct as well as the indirect relationship between perceived voice costs and employee voice.
Originality/value
This study uncovers the alternative mechanism underlying the relationship between managerial openness and employee voice as well as the boundary condition of this relationship.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Project [grant number 72002084], and Humanities and Social Science Project of The Ministry of Education of China [grant number 20YJC630194].
Citation
Yin, Y., Duan, J., Wang, T. and Jiao, X. (2022), "Managerial openness and employee voice: a moderated mediation model", Chinese Management Studies, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 1066-1080. https://doi.org/10.1108/CMS-11-2020-0487
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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