ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2022, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (11): 2395-2404.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2022.02395

• 研究构想 • 上一篇    下一篇

逆境中何以建言?成就目标视角下员工建言韧性的形成机制与作用效果

王尧1, 罗文豪2(), 候亮3   

  1. 1中国政法大学商学院, 北京 100088
    2北方工业大学经济管理学院, 北京 100144
    3中国人民大学商学院, 北京 100872
  • 收稿日期:2021-12-29 出版日期:2022-11-15 发布日期:2022-09-07
  • 通讯作者: 罗文豪 E-mail:whluo1988@hotmail.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目(72102228)

How do employees engage in voice behavior despite adversity? Understanding the formation and outcomes of voice resilience from the perspective of achievement goal

WANG Yao1, LUO Wenhao2(), HOU Liang3   

  1. 1Business School, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing 100088, China
    2School of Economics and Management, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China
    3School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
  • Received:2021-12-29 Online:2022-11-15 Published:2022-09-07
  • Contact: LUO Wenhao E-mail:whluo1988@hotmail.com

摘要:

在动态复杂的商业环境中, 员工建言对于组织发展具有重要的意义。以往的建言研究普遍认为, 当环境不支持建言时员工会减少建言行为。然而, 并非所有员工都会在逆境中放弃建言, 有的员工甚至会在逆境中表现出更多的建言行为。为了回答员工何以在逆境中持续建言这一基本问题, 探索员工在逆境中持续建言的形成机制和作用效果, 本文将首先探讨建言韧性的概念内涵, 并开发建言韧性的测量工具。然后, 以成就目标理论为基础, 对三种目标定向促进或者抑制员工建言韧性的路径和条件做出分析。最后, 探讨建言韧性对员工后续建言行为和领导者建言采纳的影响。本文回应并拓展了建言研究的前沿问题, 也为组织了解和培养员工的建言韧性提供实践启示。

关键词: 建言行为, 建言韧性, 成就目标, 后续建言行为, 建言采纳

Abstract:

With the increasing uncertainty of the environment, avoiding organizational risks and improving organizational effectiveness by merely relying on the wisdom of managers become increasingly difficult. In this context, employee voice plays an increasingly important role in organizational development. In recent years, employee voice behavior has gradually become a hotspot in organizational behavior research. Theoretical and empirical studies reveal that voice behavior can prompt risks, promote innovation, and offer a powerful guarantee for the sustainable development of organizations.

This paper puts forward new questions based on the phenomenon of voice in the workplace, which has not received much attention in the literature thus far. Previous studies on voice predominantly show that when voice-inhibiting factors, such as unsupportive leaders and unsafe environment, are present, employees will reduce their voice behavior and remain silent. However, not all employees will give up their opinions because of environmental obstacles, and some employees are even encouraged to display stronger voice behaviors when facing adversities. What makes an employee speak out in an adversity? What is the mechanism that underlies this phenomenon? What are its outcomes? These questions have not been adequately answered in the extant literature.

To fill these gaps, this paper designs three related studies around “voice resilience”. Study 1 combines the cutting-edge findings of employee resilience research to reconceptualize the notion of voice resilience and develops an effective voice resilience scale based on these findings. Study 2 explores the formation mechanism of voice resilience based on achievement goal theory and adopts the new scale developed in Study 1 to empirically test the relationship between three achievement goal orientations and voice resilience. Study 3 explores the impact of voice resilience on the subsequent voice behavior of employees and the voice endorsement of leaders and empirically tests the hypothesized relationship using the new scale developed in Study 1.

The theoretical innovation of this study is mainly reflected in three aspects. First, this study reveals that voice resilience is essentially a dynamic psycho-behavioral process that provides a new theoretical perspective for understanding the voice of employees amid adversity. Second, this study deeply analyzes the impact of employee achievement goals on their voice resilience, thereby enriching the literature on the antecedents of voice resilience. Third, this study analyzes the effect of voice resilience on both employees and leaders, thereby extending the findings of previous voice resilience research.

Key words: voice behavior, voice resilience, achievement goals, subsequent voice behavior, voice endorsement

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