Discrete Employee Emotions and Voice Behavior: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Reciprocal Relationships

Professor Ng, Thomas Wai Hung   (Principal Investigator (PI))

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2015-10-01

366000

Discrete Employee Emotions and Voice Behavior: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Reciprocal Relationships

Changes, Discrete emotions, Organizational support, Supervisor support, Voice behavior

Management

Business Studies (B)

17500615

General Research Fund (GRF)

2015

Completed

1) To test a theoretical model that integrates employee emotion research with employee voice research for the first time. The two research streams have been developing separately. 2) To examine multiple positive and negative discrete emotions as predictors of multiple types of voice. Much voice research focuses on either positive or negative organizational experiences as predictors of voice. 3) To examine the impacts of voice on social resources (organizational and supervisor support) and how they in turn affect employee emotions. In so doing, I can identify the reciprocal effects of voice on employee emotions. 4) To investigate how changes in discrete emotions are related to changes in different types of voice (and in social resources) over time. This objective is important because both emotions and voice are likely to fluctuate over time.