Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking

© The Author(s) 2019. This study advances voice research by offering a social-relational view of the drivers of voice, a theoretical approach to voice that is seldom considered within the current paradigm largely focused on personality traits, job conditions, and organizational characteristics. One...

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Main Authors: Ng, T.W.H., Hsu, D.Y., Parker, Sharon
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95250
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Hsu, D.Y.
Parker, Sharon
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Parker, Sharon
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description © The Author(s) 2019. This study advances voice research by offering a social-relational view of the drivers of voice, a theoretical approach to voice that is seldom considered within the current paradigm largely focused on personality traits, job conditions, and organizational characteristics. One overlooked yet important social-relational antecedent of voice is received respect. Our core premise is that when employees believe they are respected by coworkers, they experience psychological changes to their control beliefs (representing “can-do” proactive motivation) and positive mood (representing “energized-to” proactive motivation), which then motivate voice. We further consider another social-relational variable—perspective taking—as a predictor of received respect and therefore as an indirect predictor of voice. Through a multimethod, multisample research program comprising four studies (two experiments involving more than 400 subjects in total, a sample involving more than 700 matched employee-coworker and subordinate-supervisor dyads, and a 9-week within-person field investigation of more than 400 university alumni), we provide evidence to support the proposed model. That is, received respect was associated with employees’ voice through control beliefs and positive mood, and perspective taking was a prominent predictor of received respect.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-952502024-07-04T06:41:13Z Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking Ng, T.W.H. Hsu, D.Y. Parker, Sharon Social Sciences Business Psychology, Applied Management Business & Economics Psychology voice respect proactive motivation perspective taking © The Author(s) 2019. This study advances voice research by offering a social-relational view of the drivers of voice, a theoretical approach to voice that is seldom considered within the current paradigm largely focused on personality traits, job conditions, and organizational characteristics. One overlooked yet important social-relational antecedent of voice is received respect. Our core premise is that when employees believe they are respected by coworkers, they experience psychological changes to their control beliefs (representing “can-do” proactive motivation) and positive mood (representing “energized-to” proactive motivation), which then motivate voice. We further consider another social-relational variable—perspective taking—as a predictor of received respect and therefore as an indirect predictor of voice. Through a multimethod, multisample research program comprising four studies (two experiments involving more than 400 subjects in total, a sample involving more than 700 matched employee-coworker and subordinate-supervisor dyads, and a 9-week within-person field investigation of more than 400 university alumni), we provide evidence to support the proposed model. That is, received respect was associated with employees’ voice through control beliefs and positive mood, and perspective taking was a prominent predictor of received respect. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95250 10.1177/0149206319834660 English SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC restricted
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Business
Psychology, Applied
Management
Business & Economics
Psychology
voice
respect
proactive motivation
perspective taking
Ng, T.W.H.
Hsu, D.Y.
Parker, Sharon
Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking
title Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking
title_full Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking
title_fullStr Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking
title_full_unstemmed Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking
title_short Received Respect and Constructive Voice: The Roles of Proactive Motivation and Perspective Taking
title_sort received respect and constructive voice: the roles of proactive motivation and perspective taking
topic Social Sciences
Business
Psychology, Applied
Management
Business & Economics
Psychology
voice
respect
proactive motivation
perspective taking
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95250