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Transformational Leadership and Voice: When Does Felt Obligation to the Leader Matter?

verfasst von: Jinyun Duan, Xiao-Hua (Frank) Wang, Onne Janssen, Jiing-Lih Farh

Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Ausgabe 3/2022

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Drawing on the notion that felt obligation is an important motivation variable that drives employees’ behavior, this study examines how leaders can evoke felt obligation in followers and to what extent such obligation can subsequently promote follower voice behavior. Using data from 384 Chinese employees and their 130 managers, we find that followers’ felt obligation to the leader (FOTL) serves as a mediator in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee voice behavior and that the mediation effect of FOTL is moderated by followers’ power distance orientation (PDO), such that the mediation effect is significant only for employees with low PDO. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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We reran all the analyses with 6 voice items. The results remained largely unchanged: (1) The interaction of FOTL and PDO on voice was significant (r = − .54, p < .05). A simple slope test indicated that the relationship between FOTL and voice was significant when PDO was low (b = .55, p < .01), but not significant when PDO was high (b = − .14, p > .10). Thus, hypothesis 2 was supported. (2) The indirect effect of TFL on voice via FOTL was significant when power distance was low (estimate = .18, 95% CI = [0.05, 0.33]), but the indirect effect was not significant when power distance was high (estimate = − .04, 95% CI = [− 0.18, 0.07]), with a significant different estimate (difference = − .22, 95% CI = [− 0.46, − 0.02]). So hypothesis 3 was partially supported.

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Titel: Transformational Leadership and Voice: When Does Felt Obligation to the Leader Matter?
verfasst von: Jinyun Duan
Xiao-Hua (Frank) Wang
Onne Janssen
Jiing-Lih Farh
Publikationsdatum: 09.07.2021
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology / Ausgabe 3/2022
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-021-09758-z

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