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We need more voices, not less! Promoting employee voice through transformational leadership: The mediating role of organization-based self-esteem

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  • Sergio López Bohle

    (Departamento de Administración, Facultad de Administración y Economía, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile)

  • Jeske van Beurden

    (Department of Human Resource Studies, Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

  • Felipe Muñoz Medina

    (Departamento de Tecnologías de Gestión, Facultad Tecnológica, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile; Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA; Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile)

  • Susan E. Peters

    (Center for Work, Health, and Well-being, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA)

Abstract

This study examines the empowering effect of transformational leadership on employees’ promotive voice behavior. In addition, the mediating effect of organization-based self-esteem and the moderating effect of job insecurity were investigated. Survey data were collected from 128 Chilean employees (enrolled in an executive business specialization program at a major Chilean university) three times using a time-lagged design. Latent moderated structural equation modeling was conducted to test the research hypotheses using Mplus. Results indicate that organization-based self-esteem fully mediates the positive relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ promotive voice behavior. Job insecurity had no significant moderating effect. This article contributes to the literature on transformational leadership by (1) providing insight into the role of organization-based self-esteem as a mechanism of follower transformation, (2) studying the boundary condition of quantitative job insecurity that may influence the effectiveness of transformational leadership, and (3) using a three-wave time-lagged design to understand these relationships.

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  • Sergio López Bohle & Jeske van Beurden & Felipe Muñoz Medina & Susan E. Peters, 2026. "We need more voices, not less! Promoting employee voice through transformational leadership: The mediating role of organization-based self-esteem," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 47(2), pages 459-477, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:47:y:2026:i:2:p:459-477
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X251334724
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