The effect of employees’ sense of power on supervisors’ voice endorsement: A cross-level moderated mediation model

Based on expectation states theory, we examined the mechanism underlying the effect of employees’ sense of power on supervisors’ voice endorsement, and tested our hypothesized model on a sample of 307 employees from 60 work teams. We used a two-time lagged design and paired questionnaire survey. Our analysis indicated that employees’ sense of power enhanced supervisors’ voice endorsement, and supervisors’ perceived voice constructiveness mediated this relationship. Multilevel analyses showed that power distance negatively moderated the influence of sense of power on perceived voice constructiveness and negatively moderated its indirect effect on voice endorsement.