ABSTRACT

This research paper is about the impact of empowering leadership on employees’ voice behavior. Basically, by empowering leadership, the improvement of an organizational competitiveness begins to increase as through it new ideas and innovations are generated and voice of employees effects in higher performance appraisal and also has a positive impact on a growth of career and increases their level of motivation. Researchers have done researches about the effect of enabling authority on employees’ voice conduct but with few factors. Some more variables are further added psychological empowerment and power distance orientation and finding their impact on empowering leadership and trust in supervisor and on belief in superior authority and employees’ voice activities respectively. The aim to make this research is to find how the added factors or variables react to the variables like how empowering leadership on employees’ voice behavior affects and the productivity of the organization through it. This paper shows the relation of enabling authority and employees’ voice conduct where trust in supervisor have mediating impact, there is also a moderating effect of psychological empowerment among the relation of empowering leadership and trusting leaders and also there is a moderating impact of power distance orientation and gender among the relation of trust in supervisor and voice behavior of workers. Now the time span given to us was so short and specific that the research was limited to few areas and few numbers so it can be carried forward in a broader aspect. There are many ways for the survey among which we chose the questionnaire method because it was accurate among the all methods.

 

Keywords: Empowering leadership, employees’ voice behavior, trust in supervisor, psychological empowerment, power distance orientation.

 

 

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