The impact of empowering leader behavior on employees’ voice behavior: the role of person‑environment fit and the golden mean

Abstract

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the internal mechanism of leadership empowerment behavior on employees’suggestive behavior. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the perspective of person‐environment fit, taking the fit of employees to work, team and organization as the intermediary variable, and employees’golden mean level as the moderating variable, the article establishes a theoretical model. And based on the 243 valid data obtained from the questionnaire survey, the model was empirically tested by using SPSS2 and AMOS3. Findings – The analysis shows that the person‐environment fit dimensions play an intermediary role in the empowering leader behavior and the employee’s voice behavior , which means that the empowering leader behavior changes the employee’s voice behavior by changing the employee’s person‐environment fit perception of the work environment. Research limitations/implications – This research introduces a new perspective—personal‐environment fit, and explains the mechanism of empowering leader behavior on employees’voice behavior through it. It also uses the golden mean as a moderating variable and attaches importance to contextualized research in China. and provide new ideas for the management and practice of enterprises. Originality/value – In theory, the personal‐environment fit perspective provides managers with new theoretical ideas on how to motivate employees. In practice, this research also inspires managers to attach importance to the fit between employees and the environment, rather than just focus on the needs of employees themselves.