Evaluating the Influence of Employee Voice on Employees' Performance and Creativity through the Mediating Role of Job Engagement

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1 Associate Prof., Faculty of Management and Accountancy, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

2 Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Management and Accountancy, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Employee voice, due to its role in improving the employees' and organizations' performance, has attracted the attention of researchers and managers in recent years. This study aims at developing an employee voice scale customized to Iran's context and also evaluating the influence of employee voice on employees' performance and creativity through the mediating role of job engagement. This study is considered as applied considering its aim and as descriptive- correlative study considering the way data is gathered. Knowledge employees of Kaleh Company were selected as the population of this research. Census sampling was used and 234 questionnaires were distributed among the respondents for gathering data. Explorative factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural modeling tests were used for data analysis. The results of testing the hypotheses indicate that employee voice has significantly positive effect on job engagement. Results also prove that job engagement has positively significant effect on employees' performance both directly and indirectly through the mediating role of creativity.

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Organizational Culture Management
Volume 13, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
October 2015
Pages 833-856

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