Guanglei Zhang1, Silu Chen2,*, Youqing Fan3, Yue Dong1
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, Vol.21, No.1, pp. 13-29, 2019, DOI:10.32604/IJMHP.2019.010730
Abstract This paper attempts to unlock how and when leaders’ loneliness
influences their voice-taking behavior in the workplace by integrating the regulatory
loop model of loneliness and the affect theory of social exchange. Through collecting
a daily diary study of 87 paired leader-follower samples from two electronics
industry companies based in Guangzhou, China, this study finds that (1) leaders’
loneliness has a significant negative impact on social self-efficacy and voice-taking
behavior; (2) leaders’ social self-efficacy mediates the relationship between their
loneliness and voice-taking behavior; (3) performance pressure moderates the
relationship between leaders’ loneliness and voice-taking behavior; More >
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