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Destructive Leadership, Employees’ Voice, and Organization

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Diversity of Managerial Perspectives from Inside China

Part of the book series: Managing the Asian Century ((MAAC))

Abstract

In China, when employees are questioned by leaders, they tend to keep quiet or echo, which is harmful for the development of the organization. We try to explore how destructive leadership influences employees’ voice behavior. Does the relationship between destructive leadership and employees’ voice behavior depend on employees’ personal values?

This paper focuses on analyzing the role of perceived organizational cohesion and conformity value in the relationship between destructive leadership and employees’ voice behavior. About 259 valid samples were eventually collected. We used SPSS22.0 and LISREL8.7 to analyze the data by correlation analysis, regression analysis, CFA, and SEM.

The results show that destructive leadership negatively relates to an employee’s voice behavior. Additionally, perceived organizational cohesion fully mediates the relationship, and employees’ conformity value moderates the relationship between destructive leadership and perceived organizational cohesion. The relationship is stronger when employees’ conformity value score is higher.

We reveal the mechanism of destructive leadership that influences voice behavior in view of the leadership behavior, perceived organizational environment, and employees’ voice behavior. We determined the moderation effect of conformity.

Funded project: Major program of China National Social Science Fund “Research on Construction of Harmonious Industrial Relations” (Grant number: 12ZD&094).

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  2. School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University, Beijing, China

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Li, H., Zhu, J. (2016). Destructive Leadership, Employees’ Voice, and Organization. In: Foo, C. (eds) Diversity of Managerial Perspectives from Inside China. Managing the Asian Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-555-6_14

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