Dispositional Antecedents of Demonstration and Usefulness of Voice Behavior
By J. Crant, Tae-Yeol Kim, Jie Wang. 2011
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PurposeTo examine the relationship between Five-Factor Model (FFM) and non-FFM personality traits that are theoretically relevant to voice behavior and the demonstration and usefulness of voice behavior.Design/Methodology/ApproachA survey was conducted measuring personality with 244 MBA and undergraduate students. Their instructors kept track of all incidents of student voice behavior, and evaluated the usefulness of the suggestions.FindingsExtraversion, conscientiousness, and proactive personality were associated with voice presence. Conscientiousness and proactive personality also were associated with ratings of the usefulness of the suggestions contained in the voice communications. When all FFM and non-FFM traits studied were simultaneously entered into a single regression equation, only proactive personality significantly predicted the usefulness of the voice behaviors.ImplicationsThe results indicate that proactive personality was more predictive than the FFM traits of voice behavior directed toward one’s supervisor and the usefulness of the voice. Future research should validate these findings in a more traditional organizational setting.Originality/ValueThis work is one of the few studies that have employed a field setting to study the presence and usefulness of voice behaviors. Another gap filled by the present research is comparing the predictive validity of FFM and non-FFM personality traits on voice presence, and examining the relationship between the personality of the voice contributors and the target’s evaluation of the voice usefulness in a field setting.
Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction
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- Voice, creativity, and big five personality traits: A meta-analysis (2018, background): “Voice has previously been positioned as a valued OCB form that indirectly contributes to the success of the organization (Crant et al., 2011; Erez, Lepine, & Elms, 2002; LePine & Van Dyne, 2001; Speier & Frese, 1997).”
- Constructive Deviance in Organizations (2013, methodology): “Following similar logic, Crant, Kim, and Wang (2011) conducted a survey to measure personality of 224 MBA and undergraduate students and also kept track of all incidents of student voice behavior in the classroom.”
- Silence is not Golden: Motivating Employee Voice through Inclusive Leadership (2020, background): “…that ties individual employee dispositional characteristics such as extraversion, assertiveness, conscientiousness, and proactive personality (Crant et al., 2011; LePine & Van Dyne, 2001; Tangirala et al., 2013) indicates that testing for and selecting on the basis of certain traits may…”