Empirical Research On The Effects Of Paternalistic Leadership On Employees’ Voice Behavior

Internet changes our life a lot. The rapidof information spread and convenience of knowledge sharing makes efficiency more important in market competition. This efficiency depends on sensitivity of information in market and scientificity of business administration. No matter getting information in market timely or checking out rationality of plan, staff at the production line plays a crucial role. Employee’s voice is a steady foundation of the enterprise. On the other hand, leadership influences employee behavior much. Especially in China, folks get used to the patriarchy and hierarchy, which helps build paternalistic leadership— a leadership quite different from western with tipical Chinese characteristic. Thus figuring out how paternalistic leadership influence employee’s voice is the key to open Chinese staff’s mind. The paper draws role expectancy into consideration as mediating variable to reveal the inner mechanism between paternalistic and employee’s voice.This study summarized the predecessors’ research, used paternalistic leadership scale by Zheng Boxun, role expectancy scale by Detert and employee’s voice scale by Liang to get 176 sets of data from staff in enterprises. Based on the data, research adopted SPSS to do exploratory factor analysis, correlation and regression analysis, verified the causality between paternalistic leadership and employee’s voice and the effect of role expectancy as intervening viariable.The result show that authoritarian leadership should be split into two sub-factors, autocratic leadership and pressure leadership, which means there are four sub-facrors of paternalistic leadership. Moreover, research shows that both benevolent leadership and moral leadership have significant positive predictive effect on voice behavior. Role expectancy plays a full mediating role between benevolent leadership and voice behavior, plays a partial mediating effect between moral leadership and employee’s voice. Autocratic have significant negative predictive effect on employee’s voice, and role expectancy plays a full mediating role in it. Pressure leadership has negative effect on voice but not significant.