家长式领导对员工建言行为的影响——心理资本的中介作用-the influence of paternalistic leadership on employees voice behavior - the mediating role of psychological capital.docxVIP

AbstractAs voice behavior is one primary component of staff proactivity, it is of great significance to drive organizational continuous improvement and maintain its innovation vigor in voice behavior campaign. According to previous research, it suggests that employees are often reluctant to speak out and engage in a low participation in voice behavior. And leaders exhibit autocratic behaviors and subordinates have no chance to put forward suggestions. It is thus clear that leadership has a great impact on subordinates’ voice behavior. Therefore, this paper further explores the impact that paternalistic leadership, based on the oriental culture, exerts on subordinates’ voice behavior and the role that PsyCap and reward-punishment strategy played in enhancing employees’ voice behavior.The thesis discusses the influence of paternalistic leadership on voice behavior and investigates the mediating role of psycap and the moderating role of reward-punishment strategy with a sample of 360 employees. The analysis results indicated that position, age and the years of working in present unit exert significant effect on subordinates’ voice behavior. By a manipulation of these demographic variables, the following results were concluded: (1) benevolent leadership and ethical leadership relate positively to voice behavior; (2) authoritarian leadership relates negatively to voice behavior with a sample of middle-aged; (3) benevolent leadership and ethical leadership relate positively to PsyCap;(4) authoritarian leadership relates negatively to PsyCap with a sample of middle-aged; (5) PsyCap relates positively to voice behavior; (6) PsyCap partially mediates the relationship between benevolent leadership, ethical leadership, authoritarian leadership and voice behavior; (7) Reward-Punishment strategy moderates the relationship between PsyCap and voice behavior. Base on the discussion above, the results are not only of theoretical value, but also provide thoughts and solutions for org