Exploring the influence of ethical leadership on voice behavior: How leader-member exchange, psychological safety and psychological empowerment influence employees' Willingness to Speak Out

Yixin Hu; Liping Zhu; Mengmeng Zhou; Jie Li; Phil Maguire; Haichao Sun; Dawei Wang

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01718

Exploring the influence of ethical leadership on voice behavior: How leader-member exchange, psychological safety and psychological empowerment influence employees' Willingness to Speak Out

Yixin Hu, Liping Zhu, Mengmeng Zhou^*, Jie Li, Phil Maguire, Haichao Sun, Dawei Wang

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	1718
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	9
Issue number	SEP
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01718
Publication status	Published - 12 Sept 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Ethical leadership
Leader-member exchange
Psychological empowerment
Psychological safety
Voice behavior

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