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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1421412

Servant leadership and employee voice behavior: The role of employee work reflection and employee proactive personality

Provisionally accepted
Zelei Xu Zelei Xu 1Yu Gu Yu Gu 2*Hongyu Wang Hongyu Wang 2Lili Liu Lili Liu 3
  • 1 Changchun University of Technology, Changchun, Jilin Province, China
  • 2 Jilin University, Changchun, China
  • 3 Jilin University of Finance and Economics, Changchun, Jilin Province, China

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    Despite the recent proliferation of scholarly investigations on servant leadership, clarity remains elusive regarding the specific mechanisms and conditions underpinning employee cognitive processes and their responses to servant leadership.Drawing upon social cognitive theory, proposes a moderated mediation model tested through a time-lagged field data from 489 employees in Study 1 and an experimental data in Study 2. We found that servant leadership indirectly enhances employee voice behavior through increased employee work reflection. Additionally, we considered employee proactive personality as a boundary condition for the positive effect of servant leadership. Our results show that servant leadership prompts employee work reflection only when the level of employee proactive personality is high, which in turn increases employee voice behavior. This study presents significant theoretical and practical implications through the integration of social cognitive theory with servant leadership research.

    Keywords: servant leadership, Employee voice behavior, employee work reflection, employee proactive personality, social cognitive theory

    Received: 22 Apr 2024; Accepted: 16 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Xu, Gu, Wang and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yu Gu, Jilin University, Changchun, China

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