The Power of Voice: The Impact of Employee Voice on Leader’s Behavior

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10.2991/978-94-6463-642-0_11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ethical voice; Leader’s unethical behavior

Abstract

As unethical incidents in the workplace become more frequent, the power of employees in organizations has received extensive academic attention. Most existing research has explored the negative impacts of employee voice behavior, with less focus on its positive effects. Based on this, this study uses spss to analyze 109 leader-employee paired questionnaires through empirical investigation, and finds that employees’ ethical voice has a negative impact on leaders’ unethical behaviors. This suggests that employees’ positive ethical voices containing positive energy in the workplace can help to reduce unethical behaviors of leaders. This study not only provides a new perspective for shaping the ethical climate of an organization, but also provides a direction for employees to protect themselves from the unethical demands of leaders in the workplace.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Kaiyu Mi
AU  - Xiang Zhao
AU  - Shuqi Li
AU  - Xu Sun
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/01/24
TI  - The Power of Voice: The Impact of Employee Voice on Leader’s Behavior
BT  - Proceedings of 2024 6th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 112
EP  - 118
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-642-0_11
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-642-0_11
ID  - Mi2025
ER  -