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How Ethical Leadership Prompts Employees’ Voice Behavior? The Roles of Employees’ Affective Commitment and Moral Disengagement

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Cheng, Jin, Sun, Xin, Lu, Jinting, He, Yuqing·2022·Frontiers in Psychology

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Previous literature has demonstrated that ethical leadership could predict employees’ voice behavior. However, it’s not clear how to heighten these positive effects of ethical leadership on employees’ voice behavior. Building on the AET and moral disengagement studies, we developed an integrated model. A three-wave field study (N = 232) investigated the relationship between ethical leadership and voice behavior by focusing on the mediating role of employees’ affective commitment and the moderating role of employees’ moral disengagement. Our matched data analysis results indicated that: (1) employees’ affective commitment partly mediated the relationship between ethical leadership and employees’ voice behavior. In addition, employees’ moral disengagement moderated (2) the effect of ethical leadership on employees’ affective commitment and (3) the effect of employees’ affective commitment on voice behavior, similarly, (4) the indirect effect of ethical leadership on employees’ voice behavior via employees’ affective commitment. Theoretical and practical implications of these results are discussed.

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Authors
Cheng, J., Sun, X., Lu, J., & He, Y.
Affiliations
Xiamen University (CN)
Corresponding author
Lu, Jinting
Venue
Frontiers in Psychology
Published
2022-01-20
Volume
12
Pages
732463-732463
ISSN
1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4206169976
Cited by
30
References
111
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2
FWCI
6.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Ethics in Business and Education
  • Social Sciences › Public Administration › Labor Movements and Unions
Keywords
ethical leadership, employee voice behavior, affective commitment, moral disengagement, affective events theory, mediation, moderation, organizational citizenship behavior

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