Abstract
Previous research generally assumes that employees’ perceptions of organizational politics decrease their voice behaviors. However, it is premature and inaccurate to conclude that the relationship is exclusively negative because these studies did not fully capture the nature of employee voice. Adopting an expansive view of voice behavior, this study takes the foci of voice into consideration and, through the lens of conservation of resources, proposes that perceptions of organizational politics has distinct indirect effects on two kinds of voice behaviors (organization-targeted and self-targeted voice) via ego depletion. Moreover, perceived managerial openness serves as a moderator in such indirect effects and specifically moderates the relationship between depletion and voice behaviors. Our hypotheses were supported by results from three-wave time-lagged survey data from 406 employees. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
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