Leader empowerment behavior, self-efficacy and employees´ voice behavior: An empirical research on IT knowledge employees

The objective of this paper is to examine the mechanism of the effect of leader empowerment behavior on employees´ voice behavior from the self cognition perspective combined with the social impact theory. Using insights from self-cognitive perspective, it puts forward employees´ self-efficacy is the extrinsic motivation of voice behavior. It also provides a theoretical framework explaining the relation between leader empowerment behavior and voice behavior. Based on 89 paired samples which include 356 employees´ questionnaire and 89 supervisors´ questionnaire from IT industry, it concludes leader empowerment behavior can influence employees´ voice behavior through self-efficacy; organization-based self-esteem has moderating effect between leader empowerment behavior and employees´ self-efficacy.