How to Promote Employee Voice Behavior：Analysis Based on Leadership Style Perspective

ZHANG YAN

Abstract


In recent years, the theoretical and practical circles have conducted a lot of theoretical exploration and practical development on how to promote employees' voice behavior, among them, the effect of leadership style on employee voice behavior has received full attention from academic circles. On the basis of the researches of leadership style theory and voice behavior, the paper used text analysis to investigate the process mechanism and effect direction of different leadership style on voice behavior emphatically. The results showed as follows: The influence of leadership style on employee voice behavior is significant mostly, while there were differences in process mechanism and effect direction; Among them, psychological mechanism of employees played a major role in transmission and moderating effect, the connotation and characteristics of leadership style determined the effect degree and effect direction. By applying the leadership style contingently and creating good employee voice climate, employee voice behavior could be promoted widely, and management quality of the enterprise would be improved.


Keywords


Leadership style; Employee voice behavior; Process mechanism; Effect direction

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