Abstract: Employees’ voice behavior is an important force that needs to be fully valued and utilized by enterprises in the current internal and external environment with strong demand for innovation and severe competition. However, there is a certain degree of “voice paradox” in the current management practice. In order to better solve the contradictions and tensions that may be caused by employee’ s voice behavior, ambidextrous leadership is introduced to build a cross level theoretical model and the mechanism of how ambidextrous leadership influences employees’ voice behavior is discussed in the current study. The team leaders and members of 78 work teams are surveyed through questionnaire, and 387 matched data are obtained. The results show that the ambidextrous, transformational and transactional leadership are positively related to employees’ voice behavior; employees’ regulatory focuses partially mediates the relationship between ambidextrous leadership and employees’ voice behavior; team member exchange is positively related to employees’ voice behavior, and positively moderates the positive relationship between employees’ regulatory focuses and voice behavior. On the basis of theoretical derivation and empirical research, enlightenments are proposed.

Key words: ambidextrous leadership, employee’s voice behavior, employee’s regulatory focuses, team member exchange