Organization Behavior has paid more and more attentions on the impact of leaders’ humor on employees. The leaders’ humor plays an important role in the fight against organization silence as an important means to ease the work pressure and adjust the organizational climate. This study has surveyed 502 Chinese employees to explore the impact of leader’s affiliative humor and aggressive humor styl...

Organizational silence is defined as the lack of effective interactions among staff and it stands opposite to the concept of organizational voice. In the present research, the purpose is to measure the silence behavior among the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) staff before and after the implementation of a comprehensive suggestion system. A suggestion system is an internal struc...

In this study we propose that relationship specific investments reduce the likelihood of relationship dissolution. These types of investments increase switching costs and thereby create barriers towards exiting. Additionally, high levels of relationship specific investments enhance partners' ability and willingness to resort to voice when defections and conflicts arise, and hence postpone exit....

I re-examine Hirschman’s classic text Exit, Voice, and Loyalty through a game-theoretic interpretation of the relationship between exit and voice. The model, which is general and applicable to diverse environments, treats exit as a costly decision, which may be prevented through an appropriate choice of policy by the leadership of an organization. Voice – the capacity of an organization’s membe...

This paper examines the relationship between the use of a fair budgeting process and subordinate performance. Organizational justice theory is used to de®ne a fair budgeting process as having two components: the subordinate's involvement in the budgeting process, voice; and the communication of a rationale for the subordinate's lack of in ̄uence over the ®nal budget target the superior sets, exp...

Prosocial voice, as a form of citizenship behavior with a purpose of expressing constructive changes and improving the status quo, is desirable in both teams and organizations. Also, transformational leadership (TL) has been documented as a leadership style that prompts employees to engage in prosocial voice. Recently, whether or not the effects of transformational leadership on prosocial voice...

Despite a growing body of research on employee voice—defined as the discretionary communication of ideas, suggestions, or opinions intended to improve organizational or unit functioning—the effects of shared or collective-level cognitions have received scant attention. There has also been relatively little research on voice within work groups. Our goal in this study was to address these importa...

The concepts of organizational democracy, voice, and performance have recently attracted the attention businesses. In this study, mediating role polyphony in effect democracy on was examined. universe research consists 390 employees working a company operating food sector Vienna. As result research, it determined that there is significant directly proportional relationship between performance. ...