Impacts Of Humble Leadership Behavior On Employee Voice Behavior In China

The research of the humble leadership conforms to the needs of the organization builds a mutual cooperation relationship in the dynamic development environment. It has attracted academic and government attention, also has be a new research focus of leadership behavior. As an effective interaction between leadership and employees, humble leadership behavior has an important influence on voice behavior and attitude. Especially the pursuit of harmony, and other people's value orientation of China culture,which makes the voice behavior have to face more variables. Although the humble leadership behavior is considered to be central to the survival and development of enterprises, most of the research of the humble leadership behavior is theoretical research and empirical research is still lacking. It is more worth to explore the practical value between humble leadership behavior and employee voice behavior in Chinese traditional culture which advocating "humility" since ancient times.This research attempts to explore relationship between the humble leadership behavior and employee voice behavior which based on the potential rules of management decisions in China. In total, 430 matched samples from 74 companies of the southwest and Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong were sampled by questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analysis model, correlation analysis model and regression analysis model were employed to analyze the data. Research results:(1)Humble leadership behavior has a significant positive effect on employee voice behavior;(2)Management decision potential rules has a significant positive effect on employee voice behavior;(3)Humble leadership behavior has a significant positive effect on management decision potential rules;(4)Management decision potential rules as the mediator variable between humble leadership behavior and employee voice behavior;(5)Voice behavior and Management decision potential rules differ in various demographic variables. The education structure and job level respectively have significant effects on voice behavior; Service time, position level and enterprise type have significant impact on Management decision potential rules.This study hopes not only to provide a theoretical reference about humble leadership and voice behavior, but also to provide practical guidance of improving leadership behavior, promoting employee voice and maintaining a harmonious and healthy development of enterprises.