The Influence Of Perceived Leader Humor On Subordinate’s Voice Behavior

In today’s society,the increasing working pressure has given rise to many individual and organizational problems. On the one hand,the psychological and physiological problems stemming from work pressure lead to the deterioration of health which include insomnia, anxiety, depression and other physiological imbalance;on the other hand,working pressure will easily cause the staff to produce negative emotions which lead to the impediment of organization communication and other norm-violated and inefficient behaviors which can hinder the developments of organizations. As an important mean of adjusting organization atmosphere,humor can work against organization silence and is of great significance to the alleviation of work pressure. As the core part of organization working relationships,the humor styles of the leaders play a more significant role to the behavior of subordinates.This study focuses on leader’s affiliative humor and leader’s aggressive humor. According to Martin’s humor style questionnaire, this study formed a new leaders’ humor style questionnaire which was evaluated by others and had the high level of reliability and validity.On this basis,this study focused on exploring the impact of leader’s affiliative humor(positive perspective) and leader’s aggressive humor(negative perspective) on subordinates’ voice behaviors which was based on the social theory of humor,humorous organizational role model,the development of emotional function in the construction,LMX theory and uncertainty theory. This study introduced two variables called leader-members exchange quality and psychological security. We then used statistic tools such as SPSS19.0,Amos18.0 to explore their chain intermediary effect and built the serial multiple mediator model of humor influence subordinates voice behaviors.This study came up with the following results:(1) The subordinate perceived leader’s affiliative humor and leader’s aggressive humor questionnaire respectively include eight items with reliability coefficient as. 872 and. 834. It uses 7 point Likert scoring method and has high structure validity;(2) The leader’s affiliative humor promoted subordinates’ voice behaviors whereas the leader’s aggressive humor decreased the subordinates’ voice behavior;(3) The leader’s affiliative humor improved the quality of LMX,and then promoted subordinates psychological security,and was eventually able to promote subordinates voice behaviors. The serial multiple mediator effect was significant;(4) The leader’s aggressive humor influence the quality of LMX,and then influence subordinates’ psychological security and was eventually able to influence subordinates’ voice behaviors. But the serial multiple mediator effect was not significant. It was likely to be affected by the sample size and mediation variables.