How Ethical Leadership Encourages Employee Voice Behavior in China: the Mediating Role of Organizational Harmony

Abstract

This paper examines that ethical leadership encourages employees to engage in voice behavior via increasingorganizational harmony in China. Using quantitative methods, the results suggest that ethical leadership ispositively related to employee-perceived harmony and employee voice. Moreover, ethical leadership is proved tosignificantly enhance voice behavior through promoting organizational harmony in the Chinese workplace. Thisresearch therefore contributes to the leadership literature, seeing that it develops a context-specific frameworklinking the unique Chinese cultural idiosyncrasy “harmony” to the relationship between ethical leadership andemployee voice. In terms of practical implications, the findings enable foreign entrepreneurs to gain a betterunderstanding of the role and the conduct of ethical leadership in the Chinese context.

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