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Linking Colleague Support to Employees’ Promotive Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Promotive voice is essential for improving team and organization performance. Yet in the current literature, less was known regarding the psychological reasons why people engage in promotive voice. Through the lens of social exchange, we proposed that employees who received support from colleagues may develop higher level of felt obligation for constructive change which leads to promotive voice. Analyses of multi-source data from 51 cross-functional sources (51 team supervisors and 162 employees) showed that employees' felt obligation for constructive change positively mediates the relationship between colleague support and promotive voice behavior. Moreover, the impact of colleague support on felt obligation for constructive change is stronger when there is a low level of subgroup formation in the team. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

Source: PLoS ONE

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132123

Authors: Xiao-Yun Xie, Chu-Ding Ling, Shen-Jiang Mo, Kun Luan

Institutions: Zhejiang University, Sun Yat-sen University

Language: English

Topic: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,382

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China