Abstract:
Employee voice is an organizational reality that poses significant challenges
for most organizations. Because of globalization competition is high among
organizations. Literature shows every resource whether capital, financial or human is
most important for the organization in today's situation. Currently consider employee
voice is one of the solutions that play effective role-play in working place. However,
despite such prevailing issues, in comparison to silence, employee voice has yet to
receive its due attention in extant literature. In light of such gaps, the objective of this
study was to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and
employees' voice behaviors mediating the role of psychological safety from the
perspective of social learning theory. Previous studies use employee voice with other
leadership styles but this mechanism was missing in literature when psychological
safety plays a mediation role between transformational leadership and employee
voice under social learning theory. Moreover, the cross-sectional approach is used in
this research for data collection. The researcher targeted the population of employees
who will be working in Pakistan in the various service sector. With the help of online
form data was collected from the respondents. After analysis, the finding is revealing
that Transformational leadership via psychological safety plays a significant role in
developing employee voice. Implications from this research as well as suggestions
for future studies are discussed.
In this research data was collected through questionnaire (Survey method).
More than Four hundreds questionnaire distributed, but finally used 307 after
removed missing information. In which 270 males and 70 was female that
participated in the research through their response. Researcher targeted population
was SME’s (Small Medium Enterprise) Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. After series of
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preliminary analysis techniques like finding missing values, outliers, normality of the
data and factor analysis then data set ready for further analysis. Results shows not
only Transformational leadership positive and significant impact to the employee
voice but also positive and significant impact on psychological safety. Moreover, the
findings is showing, psychological safety positively and significantly mediate
between transformational leadership and employee voice. Practical implications of
this research will help to the academic experts and organizational managers for better
decisions.