Is humility in leadership a promoter of employee voice? A moderated mediation model

IF 7.3 2区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

European Management Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.004

Evangelia Siachou , Ranjan Chaudhuri , Sheshadri Chatterjee , Demetris Vrontis , Minas Kastanakis , Markella Barouta

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Abstract

Purpose

In this study, we provide a better understanding of the role of leader humility in employee voice by examining simultaneously the mediating role of intention to share knowledge and the moderating role of organizational tenure.

Design/methodology

We developed and tested a mediated moderation model. The study hypotheses were tested with partial least squares structural equation modeling techniques.

Findings

Results from 309 medical representatives supported the study hypotheses, indicating that leader humility is related to employee voice via intention to share knowledge, and this relationship is stronger for shorter-tenured employees than for longer-tenured ones. The study also provides implications for both theory and practice.

Practical implications

The study provides empirical evidence in support of the positive effect of leader humility on employee voice. Therefore, we suggest that executive administration should pay particular attention to promoting humility in leadership to appropriately manage extra-role behavior such as employee voice.

Originality

Recently, leader humility has attracted scholarly attention in organization studies. It is considered a key antecedent of employees’ extra-role behavior and a contextual factor that is associated with many positive employee and organizational outcomes.

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领导层的谦逊是否能促进员工的发言权？调解模型

目的本研究同时考察了知识分享意愿的中介作用和组织任期的调节作用，从而更好地理解领导谦逊对员工建言的影响。设计/方法我们开发并测试了一个中介调节模型。采用偏最小二乘结构方程建模技术对研究假设进行了检验。来自309名医疗代表的研究结果支持了研究假设，表明领导者谦逊与员工的声音通过分享知识的意愿相关，并且这种关系在任期较短的员工中比在任期较长的员工中更强。本研究也为理论和实践提供了启示。实践意义本研究为领导谦逊对员工发声的积极影响提供了实证证据。因此，我们建议行政部门应特别注意在领导中促进谦逊，以适当地管理角色外行为，如员工的声音。近年来，领导者的谦逊性在组织研究中引起了学术界的关注。它被认为是员工角色外行为的关键先决条件，也是与许多积极的员工和组织结果相关的环境因素。

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European Management Journal Multiple-

CiteScore

12.90

自引率

5.30%

发文量

113

审稿时长

74 days

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