Abstract
As an emerging research field of leadership, inclusive leadership reflects the new style of leadership demanded by researchers and practitioners. Is it a leadership style that can better integrate employees and organizations, and adapt to new complex management situation? Based on theories of social exchange, organizational support, and self-determination, this study investigated the impact of inclusive leadership on employee voice behavior and team performance through caring ethical climate. We evaluated the model with a time-lagged data of 329 team members from 105 teams in six cities in China. Results indicated as following: inclusive leadership was positively correlated with employee voice behavior at the individual level and team performance at the team level; caring ethical climate mediated the relationship between inclusive leadership and employee voice behavior at the individual level, as well as mediated the relationship between inclusive leadership and team performance at the team level. This study revealed the mechanism of the positive cross-level effects of inclusive leadership on the caring ethical climate, employee voice behavior, and team performance. These findings also provided important contributions for human resource management and practice.
Highlights
Given the rapid changes in market environment and fierce competition between companies, how to improve organizational competence becomes an extremely important issue
We investigate and verify the mechanism of inclusive leadership on employee voice behavior on the basis of self-determination theory
We investigate and verify the mechanism of inclusive leadership on team performance on the basis of social exchange theory
Summary
Given the rapid changes in market environment and fierce competition between companies, how to improve organizational competence becomes an extremely important issue. The following hypothesis is proposed: Hypothesis 4: Caring ethical climate can positively influence team member employee voice at the individual level. We propose: Hypothesis 6: The positive relationship between inclusive leadership at the team level and employee voice at the individual level is mediated by caring ethical climate at the team level. Team leadership shows a close relationship with ethical climate in a team, and leaders always play the critical role in shaping the thoughts and perceptions of team members (Schminke et al, 2005), In addition, leaders exert additional enforcement through the institution and ethical codes These effects have been cited in previous research. We posit a mediated hypothesis: Hypothesis 7: The positive relationship between inclusive leadership and team performance is mediated by caring ethical climate at the team level
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