DOES TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP PROMOTE EMPLOYEE VOICE? TESTING THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT AND MODERATING EFFECT OF LEADER-LEADER EXCHANGE

Fatmah Jaafari (), Franck Brulhart and Christophe Favoreu ()
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Fatmah Jaafari: AMU ECO - Aix-Marseille Université - Faculté d'économie et de gestion - AMU - Aix Marseille Université, LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Franck Brulhart: AMU ECO - Aix-Marseille Université - Faculté d'économie et de gestion - AMU - Aix Marseille Université, LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christophe Favoreu: TBS - Toulouse Business School

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Abstract: In the current paper we have studied the impact of transformational leaders' empowering behaviours on their followers' willingness to express their opinions and ideas. Specifically, we hypothesized that the relationship between transformational leadership and employee voice is mediated by psychological empowerment and moderated by leader-leader exchange. In order to test this moderated-mediation model, we collected data from 253 respondents working in public and private sector organizations in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We analysed our study data through SEM and PROCESS. Our study results confirmed that leader-leader exchange moderated the positive relationship between transformational leadership and psychological empowerment. Moreover, we found that the relationship between transformational leadership was fully mediated by psychological empowerment. Our paper underlines the importance of transformational leader's upward relationship with their superiors on their subordinate's psychological empowerment and subsequent voice behavior. Finally, theoretical and managerial implication are discussed.

Keywords: Transformational leadership; employee voice; psychological empowerment; leader-leader exchange; conservation of resources theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-06-25
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Published in European Academy of Management (EURAM) 2024 Fostering Innovation to Address Grand Challenges, University of Bath, School of Management, Jun 2024, Bath, United Kingdom

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