Is Thinking the Big Picture a Leader's Favorite in Psychologically Safe Conditions During Covid-19?

Abstract

Voice is an important way for small and medium-sized enterprises to respond to changes in the management of the epidemic. This study suggests that employees' perceptions of psychological safety change their voice patterns. All three leadership styles were negatively correlated with employees' acquiescence voice. Psychological safety was negatively correlated with employees' acquiescence voice. The three leadership styles were fully mediated by psychological safety for their employees' acquiescence voice. From this model, we found that the order of indirect influence strength from strong to weak is supportive leadership, moderate leadership, and inclusive leadership. We conducted a random sample survey of 600 employees of 42 manufacturing SMEs in Taiwan. The analysis results were applied with hierarchical regression and bootstrap method in statistical analysis. The results obtained support our hypothesis and provide current understanding of employee voices in turbulent workplaces. Thus, this study makes important contribution to voice and human resource management research .