Management Review ›› 2022, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (7): 246-254.

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Originating from Challenge or Bullying: A Study on the Mechanism of How Workplace Stress Acts on Destructive Voice Behavi

Dai Tongliang1, Dong Hua1, Lei Xinghui2   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061;
    2. School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092
  • Received:2019-09-05 Online:2022-07-28 Published:2022-08-19

Abstract: The "9am to 9pm, 6 days a week" work schedule has become normal for enterprises in the rat race. In this situation, it is important for the management to relieve pressures on employees so that they would speak up constructively. For this purpose, we draw upon 248 new employees from different industries to explore the mechanism of how challenging stress and workplace bullying act on destructive voice behavior and the boundary conditions of the mechanism. The results show that challenging stress has a negative impact on destructive voice behavior; workplace bullying has a positive impact on destructive voice behavior; psychological contract rupture plays a partial intermediary role between challenging stress and destructive voice behavior, as well as between workplace bullying and destructive voice behavior, and the degree of socialization of new employees plays a positive role between challenging stress and psychological contract rupture. The degree of socialization of new employees plays a negative role between workplace bullying and psychological contract rupture.

Key words: challenging stress, workplace bullying, new employees, destructive voice behavior