Encouraging newcomer voice through mentoring support: The mediating role of trust and the moderating role of power distance orientation

IF 9.8 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Business Research Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI:10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115520

Sheng Wang , Changya Hu , Mai Pham , Hsiang Pin Yu

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Abstract

Encouraging newcomer voice is crucial for addressing the challenges posed by the changing workforce and maintaining organizational competitiveness. However, their voice is often devalued or even ignored, particularly by supervisors. This study investigated how non-supervisory mentoring support may be a valuable resource to facilitate newcomers’ voice. Based on time-lagged data collected from 248 ongoing mentor – newcomer protégé dyads in the real estate industry, we found that protégés’ trust in mentors partially mediated the positive relationship between mentoring support and newcomer protégé voice. Protégés’ power distance orientation (PDO) moderated both the trust – voice and the mentoring support – voice relationships such that these relationships were stronger for protégés with low PDO. Further analyses revealed that the two types of mentoring support influenced voice in different ways. While career support affected protégé voice both directly and indirectly through trust, psychosocial support only had a direct effect on voice when protégé PDO was low.

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通过师徒支持鼓励新人发声：信任的中介作用和权力距离取向的调节作用

鼓励新人发声对于应对劳动力变化带来的挑战和保持组织竞争力至关重要。然而，她们的声音往往被低估，甚至被忽视，尤其是被主管忽视。本研究探讨非监督式辅导如何成为促进新员工发声的宝贵资源。基于248名房地产行业在职导师-新入职员工的时间滞后数据，我们发现导师对新入职员工的信任部分中介了师徒支持与新入职员工表达之间的正向关系。个体的权力距离取向（PDO）调节了信任-声音关系和师徒支持-声音关系，且PDO低的个体的信任-声音关系更强。进一步分析发现，两种类型的师徒支持对建言的影响方式不同。职业支持通过信任直接和间接地影响原变性人的发声，而社会心理支持仅在原变性人的PDO较低时对发声有直接影响。

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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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