Does Value Congruence Lead to Voice? Cooperative Voice and Cooperative Silence under Team and Differentiated Transformational Leadership

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 341-370

  Wang, An Chih ^a   Hsieh, Hsu Hung ^b   Tsai, Chou Yu ^c   Cheng, Bor Shiuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION   (Taiwan)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiated leadership; Silence; Transformational leadership; Value congruence; Voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863428443     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2011.00255.x     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G. 1991. Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
2. Antonakis, J., & House, R. J. 2002. The full-range leadership theory: The way forward. In B. J. Avolio & F. J. Yammarino (Eds.), Transformational and charismatic leadership: The road ahead: 3-33. Amsterdam: JAI Press.
3. Ashforth, S. J., Rothbard, N. P., Piderit, S. K., & Dutton, J. E. 1998. Out on a limb: The role of context and impression management in selling gender-equality issues. Administrative Science Quarterly, 43(1): 23-57.
4. Ashkanasy, N. M., & O'Connor, C. 1997. Value congruence in leader-member exchange. Journal of Social Psychology, 137(5): 647-662.
5. Avolio, B. J., & Bass, B. M. 1988. Transformational leadership, charisma, and beyond. In J. G. Hunt, B. R. Balaga, H. P. Bachler & C. Schriesheim (Eds.), Emerging leadership vista: 29-50. Emsford, NY: Pergamon Press.
6. Avolio, B. J., & Bass, B. M. 1995. Individual consideration viewed at multiple levels of analysis: A multi-level framework for examining the diffusion of transformational leadership. Leadership Quarterly, 6(2): 199-218.
7. Bass, B. M. 1985. Leadership and performance beyond expectations. New York: The Free Press.
8. Bass, B. M., & Avolio, B. J. 1995. MLQ multifactor leadership questionnaire (2nd ed.). Redwood City, CA: Mind Garden.
9. Bass, B. M., & Steidlmeier, P. 1999. Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior. Leadership Quarterly, 10(2): 181-217.
10. Bliese, P. D. 2000. Within-group agreement, non-independence, and reliability: Implications for data aggregation and analysis. In K. K. Klein & S. J. Kozlowski (Eds.), Multilevel theory, research, and methods in organizations: 349-381. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
11. Bono, J. E., & Judge, T. A. 2003. Self-concordance at work: Toward understanding the motivational effects of transformational leaders. Academy of Management Journal, 46(5): 554-571.
12. Brown, M. E., & Treviño, L. K. 2006. Socialized charismatic leadership, value congruence, and deviance in work groups. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(4): 954-962.
13. Brown, M. E., & Treviño, L. K. 2009. Leader-follower value congruence: Are socialized charismatic leaders better able to achieve it? Journal of Applied Psychology, 94(2): 478-490.
14. Burns, J. M. 1978. Leadership. New York: Harper & Row.
15. Chai, S. K., & Rhee, M. 2010. Confucian capitalism and the paradox of closure and structural holes in East Asian firms. Management and Organization Review, 6(1): 5-29.
16. Chen, X. P., Xie, X., & Chang, S. 2011. Cooperative and competitive orientation among Chinese people: Scale development and validation. Management and Organization Review, 7(2): 353-379.
17. Cheng, B. S., Chou, L. F., Wu, T. Y., Huang, M. P., & Farh, J. L. 2004. Paternalistic leadership and subordinate responses: Establishing a leadership model in Chinese organizations. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 7(1): 89-117.
18. Detert, J. R., & Burris, E. R. 2007. Leadership behavior and employee voice: Is the door really open? Academy of Management Journal, 50(4): 869-884.
19. Dvir, T., Eden, D., Avolio, B. J., & Shamir, B. 2002. Impact of transformational leadership on follower development and performance: A field experiment. Academy of Management Journal, 45(4): 735-744.
20. Edmondson, A. C. 1999. Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2): 350-383.
21. Edmondson, A. C. 2003. Speaking up in the operating room: How team leaders promote learning in interdisciplinary action teams. Journal of Management Studies, 40(6): 1419-1452.
22. Farh, J. L., Hackett, R. D., & Liang, J. 2007. Individual-level cultural values as moderators of perceived organizational support-employee outcome relationships in China: Comparing the effects of power distance and traditionality. Academy of Management Journal, 50(3): 715-729.
23. Fei, X., Hamilton, G. G., & Wang, Z. 1992. From the soil: The foundations of Chinese society, a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
24. Ford, C. M. 1996. A theory of individual creative action in multiple social domains. Academy of Management Review, 21(4): 1112-1142.
25. Fu, P. P., Tsui, A. S., Liu, J., & Li, L. 2010. Pursuit of whose happiness? Executive leaders' transformational behaviors and personal values. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(2): 222-254.
26. Henderson, D. J. 2009. LMX differentiation: A multilevel review and examination of its antecedents and outcomes. Leadership Quarterly, 20(4): 517-534.
27. Hirschman, A. O. 1970. Exit, voice, and loyalty: Responses to decline in firms, organizations, and states. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
28. Ilies, R., Nahrgang, J. D., & Morgeson, F. P. 2007. Leader-member exchange and citizenship behaviors: A meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(1): 269-277.
29. Janis, I. L. 1982. Groupthink (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
30. Jung, D. I., & Avolio, B. J. 2000. Opening the black box: An experimental investigation of the mediating effects of trust and value congruence on transformational and transactional leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21(8): 949-964.
31. Kark, R., & Shamir, B. 2002. The dual effect of transformational leadership: Priming relational and collective selves and further effects on followers. In B. J. Avolio & F. J. Yammarino (Eds.), Transformational and charismatic leadership: The road ahead: 67-91. Amsterdam: JAI Press.
32. Kelman, H. C. 1958. Compliance, identification, and internalization: Three processes of attitude change. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2(1): 51-56.
33. Kirkman, B. L., Chen, G., Farh, J. L., Chen, Z. X., & Lowe, K. B. 2009. Individual power distance orientation and follower reactions to transformational leaders: A cross-level, cross-cultural examination. Academy of Management Journal, 52(4): 744-764.
34. Kirkman, B. L., Lowe, K. B., & Gibson, C. B. 2006. A quarter century of culture's consequences: A review of empirical research incorporating Hofstede's cultural values framework. Journal of International Business Studies, 37(3): 285-320.
35. Klein, K. J., & Kozlowski, S. W. J. 2000. From micro to meso: Critical steps in conceptualizing and conducting multi-level research. Organizational Research Methods, 3(3): 211-236.
36. Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. 1995. The leadership challenge. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
37. LePine, J. A., & Van Dyne, L. 1998. Predicting voice behavior in work groups. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83(6): 853-868.
38. Li, C. H. 2009. Top 30 CEOs who have made a fortune for stakeholders for ten straight years. Money, 22(7): 122-163 (in Chinese).
39. Little, T. D., Cunningham, W. A., Shahar, G., & Widaman, K. F. 2002. To parcel or not to parcel: Exploring the question, weighing the merits. Structural Equation Modeling, 9(2): 151-173.
40. Lodahl, T. M., & Kejner, M. 1965. The definition and measurement of job involvement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 49(1): 24-33.
41. Maslach, C., & Jackson, S. E. 1981. The Maslach burnout inventory. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
42. Mathieu, J. E., & Taylor, S. R. 2007. A framework for testing meso-mediating relationships in organizational behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 28(2): 141-172.
43. Milliken, F. J., Morrison, E. W., & Hewlin, P. F. 2003. An exploratory study of employee silence: Issues that employees don't communicate upward and why. Journal of Management Studies, 40(6): 1453-1476.
44. Morrison, E. W., & Milliken, F. J. 2000. Organizational silence: A barrier to change and development in a pluralistic world. Academy of Management Review, 25(4): 706-725.
45. Park, W. W. 1990. A review of research on groupthink. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 3(4): 229-245.
46. Pinder, C. C., & Harlos, K. P. 2001. Employee silence: Quiescence and acquiescence as responses to perceived injustice. In K. M. Rowland & G. R. Ferris (Eds.), Research in personnel and human resource management, 20: 331-369. NewYork: JAI Press.
47. Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Lee, J. Y., & Podsakoff, N. P. 2003. Common method bias in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(5): 879-903.
48. Preacher, K. J., & Hayes, A. F. 2008. Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models. Behavior Research Methods, 40(3): 879-891.
49. Shamir, B., House, R. J., & Arthur, M. B. 1993. The motivational effects of charismatic leadership: A self-concept based theory. Organization Science, 4(4): 577-594.
50. Shamir, B., Zakay, E., Breinin, E., & Popper, M. 1998. Correlates of charismatic leader behavior in military units: Subordinates' attitudes, unit characteristics, and superiors' appraisals of leader performance. Academy of Management Journal, 41(4): 387-409.
51. Sobel, M. E. 1982. Asymptotic confidence intervals for indirect effects in structural equation models. In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological Methodology: 290-312. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
52. Stamper, C. L., & Van Dyne, L. 2001. Work status and organizational citizenship behavior: A field study of restaurant employees. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 22(5): 517-536.
53. Staw, B. M., & Boettger, R. D. 1990. Task revision: A neglect form of work performance. Academy of Management Journal, 33(3): 534-559.
54. Terry, D. J., & Hogg, M. A. 1996. Group norms and the attitude-behavior relationship: A role for group identification. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 22(8): 776-795.
55. Van Dyne, L., Ang, S., & Botero, I. C. 2003. Conceptualizing employee silence and employee voice as multidimensional constructs. Journal of Management Studies, 40(6): 1359-1392.
56. Wang, A. C., & Cheng, B. S. 2010. When does benevolent leadership lead to creativity? The moderating role of creative role identity and job autonomy. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 31(1): 106-121.
57. Wang, H., Law, K. S., Hackett, R., Wang, D. X., & Chen, Z. X. 2005. Leader-member exchange as a mediator of the relationship between transformational leadership and followers' performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Academy of Management Journal, 48(3): 420-432.
58. Whetten, D. A. 2009. An examination of the interface between context and theory applied to the study of Chinese organizations. Management and Organization Review, 5(1): 29-56.
59. Wu, J. B., Tsui, A. S., & Kinicki, A. J. 2010. Consequences of differentiated leadership in groups. Academy of Management Journal, 53(1): 90-106.
60. Yammarino, F. J., & Bass, M. B. 1990. Transformational leadership and multiple levels of analysis. Human Relations, 43(10): 975-995.
61. Yang, C. F., & Chiu, C. Y. 1987. The dilemma facing Chinese subjects in answering questionnaires: Reflecting on the over-reliance on Western rating scales in research. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 29(1): 59-78 (Chinese).
62. Yukl, G. 2002. Leadership in organizations. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.