The Effects of Leader Trust on Employee Voice: Investigation the Moderating Role of Empowering Leader Behaviors

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating role of empowering leader behaviors in the effects leader trust on employee voice in the thecnical and vocational organization of guilan. The conducted research method for achieving mentioned aim was descriptive and correlation and data gathered by the questionnaires and survey research method. All employees (N=459) were as statistical population and 210 people were chosen as sample by simple stratified sampling (Quota) and Cocran formula. The results of the questionnaires analyzing and the hypotheses testing were by SMART PLS2 and SPSS 20. Data gathering tools were Trust in supervisor questionnaire of McAllister, Employee Voice of Van Dyne and LePine and empowering leadership of Arnold, et al. Content validity and convergent validity evaluation, AVE were evaluated. For reliability evaluation, Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability were evaluated. The results of the questionnaires analyzing and the hypotheses testing indicated Leader trust have significant positive effect on employee voice and only the interaction effect of employee voice and informing reached a not significant level ,whereas the interaction effects of employee voice with participative decision making and coaching were significant