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Who speaks up to whom? A relational approach to employee voice

Who speaks up to whom? A relational approach to employee voice

Pauksztat, Birgit, Steglich, Christian and Wittek, Rafael (2011) Who speaks up to whom? A relational approach to employee voice. Social Networks, 33 (4). pp. 303-316. ISSN 0378-8733 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2011.10.001)

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Abstract

We adopt a relational approach to examine the effects of social relations and formal structure on who speaks up to whom about problems at work. Data were collected in a two-wave employee survey in three Dutch preschools. Using exponential random graph modeling, we found significant positive effects of formal structure (recipient's hierarchical level; team co-membership) and good relations between speaker and recipient on the likelihood of voice in a dyad. Speaker's hierarchical level had positive effects, significant in Wave 1. Speaker's degree centrality significantly reduced the likelihood of voice, whereas recipient's degree centrality had no effect.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: employee voice, relationship quality, degree centrality, formal organizational structure, exponential random graph models (ERGM)
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Business
Faculty of Business > Department of Human Resources & Organisational Behaviour
Last Modified: 14 Oct 2016 09:34
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/13734

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