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Voice behavior has been extensively explored, but its effect on leaders, particularly at the team level, has been overlooked. Enlightened by self-expansion theory and followership research, we theorize that employee voice can boost leaders’ managerial self-efficacy (team level) via leader self-expansion. We tested our hypotheses using a time-lagged survey with 67 teams (298 employees and 67 supervisors). Results from multilevel structural equation modeling confirmed our hypotheses, showing employee voice has a positive relationship with leaders’ self-expansion, which in turn affects leaders’ managerial self-efficacy at the team level. The study offers novel insights into employee voice consequences and followership research.

Phatic communion is a type of speech that is used to facilitate social relationships without informational value, and its influence on advice taking is underexplored. Therefore, we conducted a pilot study and two main studies to explore the influence of phatic communion on advice taking. In the pilot study, we asked participants to evaluate experimental material stating phatic communion, which confirmed that the manipulation for phatic communion was effective. Study 1 explored the main effect of phatic communion on advice taking using a quantitative estimation task. Study 2 explored whether interpersonal familiarity had a moderating effect on the indirect relationship between phatic communion and advice taking via positive face threats. Overall, our results showed that advice given with phatic communion decreased (positive) face threats, and in turn, increased advice taking, but only when the relationship between the advisee and the advisor was unfamiliar.

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