Linking Ethical Leadership to Employee Voice Behavior: role of Psychological Safety, Organizational Identification and Promotion Focus.

Abstract

In fast pace market organizations are acquiring resources and developing behaviors that can give them competitive advantage and facilitate in achieving their goals. This study is intended to investigate and understand impact of ethical leadership on employee voice behavior by using employee psychological safety and organizational identification as mediating variables and employee promotion focus as moderator variable. Nembhard & Edmondson, (2006) confirmed vigorous importance of ethical leadership on employee psychological safety perception. Ethical leadership provoke organizational identification behavior among employees of the organization (Sluss & Ashforth, 2008).This study own vital significance because organizations through ethical leadership develops psychological safe environment to speak and share their ideas and suggestions for improvement of organizational current procedures and achieving organizational goals efficiently and effectively. Leaders through their ethical consideration and demonstration create the sense of oneness among their employees towards their organization. This study has crucial significance because it explore the relationship of employee’s psychological and emotional perception through ethical orientation and encourage employees to raise their voice for organizational learning and achieving organizational monetary and non- monetary goals. A total of 225 respondent from pharmaceutical companies of Lahore have been given questionaries’ on simple random sampling. Scale have been used for each variable and questions are translated in to Urdu and English language. Reliability and validity test have been examined the results supports variable reliability and validity. Path analysis have been examined to analyzed relationship among variables and hypothesis testing on smart PLS. Results showed that there is positive impact of ethical leadership on employee voice behavior. Moderation effect of employee promotion focus have been confirmed through results. There is partially mediation found of employee psychological safety and organizational identification between ethical leadership and employee voice behavior. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed and limitation and future research possibilities are suggested.