The impact of union membership on employees intent to leave their jobs was examined to test the effect of unions voice face. Hierarchical regression analyses showed a significant, negative relationship (p < .001) between union membership and employees intent to leave. In addition, the data show a significant interaction between union membership and employees company satisfaction. Dissatisfied n...

The purpose of this article is to provide insight about the conditions in which government employees are more likely to engage in voice to improve performance of their organization. In this effort, the current research examines the direct and interactive effects of ethical leadership and perceptions of personal control on improvement-centered voice among government employees. These relationship...

This research empirically examines the relationship between trust and voice, proactive personality and voice, and whether proactive personality moderates the relationship between trust and voice. A total of 105 employees were surveyed using a 14 item instrument to assess the subjects’ responses to the factors under investigation, as well as demographic characteristics. Based on regression analy...

Organization Behavior has paid more and more attentions on the impact of leaders’ humor on employees. The leaders’ humor plays an important role in the fight against organization silence as an important means to ease the work pressure and adjust the organizational climate. This study has surveyed 502 Chinese employees to explore the impact of leader’s affiliative humor and aggressive humor styl...

Voice technologies can enrich the ways in which people communicate and enable novel modes of collaboration, such as integrated voice-and text-based communication services, social and business networking facilities, and the evolving Internet technologies (collectively known as the Web 2.0 technologies). These new technologies can alleviate many problems in interpersonal communications, including...

The rapid evolution of voice and data technology is significantly changing the business environment. The introduction of services such as instant messaging, integrated voice and email, and follow me services has contributed to a work environment where employees can communicate much more efficiently, thus increasing productivity. To meet the demands of the changing business environment businesse...

This thesis deals with the occupational voice. In modern society, there is an increasing demand for oral communication in many professions. The label ‘occupational voice’ refers to those occupations where voice is the major tool. Employees in these occupations often suffer from voice symptoms to varying extents. In this thesis, the telephone customer service advisors are the target group of pro...

Technology allows employers to monitor many aspects of their employees' workplace activities. Employers use technology to provide insight into employee behavior based on the trail of "digital footprints" created each day in the workplace. This technology can piece together all of these electronic records to provide behavior patterns that employers may utilize to evaluate employee performance an...

This article examines the relationship between individual and collective employee voice, and management-led voice (appraisal), under contrasted collective voice regimes. In the first, collective workplace voice depends on voluntary recognition by the employer, and in the second, it is based on statutory rights. It is argued that in the first, individual and collective voice act as substitutes, ...