I Can’t Keep It to Myself Much Longer! How daily affective shifts shape employees’ constructive and destructive voice behaviors

IF 10.5 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Business Research Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115130

Chang-Jun Li , Hua Li , Jingyu Dong , Kunjing Li , Houyong Tao

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Abstract

Voice literature has long acknowledged that employees likely speak out after experiencing intense emotions. However, the intensity of certain experienced emotions can increase (upshift) or decrease (downshift) over time and it is unclear how changes in affect influence voice behavior. This research adopts an affective shift perspective to examine how upshifts in activated/deactivated positive (or negative) affect and their interactions predict daily constructive and destructive voice behaviors. Results from two experience sampling studies revealed that an upshift in activated positive affect enhanced daily constructive voice, and a simultaneous upshift in activated negative affect strengthened this effect. Additionally, an upshift in deactivated negative affect triggered daily destructive voice, and a concurrently experienced upshift in deactivated positive affect exacerbated this effect (only in Study 1). These findings advance our understanding of how affect influences voice behavior, offering novel insights into the dynamic affective mechanisms that drive different forms of employee voice.

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Journal of Business Research BUSINESS-

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20.30

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10.60%

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956

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