›› 2017, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (5): 110-119.

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Relationship Research between Humble Leadership and Employees' Prohibitive Voice

Zhang Yajun1, Zhang Jinlong2, Zhang Junwei3, Cui Ligang4   

  1. 1. School of Business Administration, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang 550025;
    2. School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074;
    3. School of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070;
    4. School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074
  • Received:2016-06-23 Online:2017-05-28 Published:2017-05-26

Abstract:

This paper aims to investigate the influence mechanism of humble leadership on employees' prohibitive voice, focusing on the mediating effect of voice efficacy and the moderating effect of zhong-yong thinking. We select an enterprise's employees and their direct supervisor as research subjects and analyze the survey data through structural equation model, hierarchical regression and so forth. The results indicates that humble leadership has remarkable positive influence on employees' prohibitive voice; voice efficacy plays a totally mediating role in the relationship between humble leadership and employees' prohibitive voice; zhong-yong thinking negatively moderates the relationship between humble leadership and employee's prohibitive voice, that is, the positive relationship between humble leadership and employee's prohibitive voice would be weaker when employees has higher zhong-yong thinking.

Key words: prohibitive voice, humble leadership, voice efficacy, zhong-yong thinking