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How does authoritarian leadership and abusive supervision suppress employee voice? A meta-analysis based on cognitive and resource perspectives

Shengmin Liu & Zhiyu Ling

Baltic Journal of Management2025https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm-10-2024-0622article
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Abstract

Purpose The study uses a meta-analysis method to explore the relationship between authoritarian leadership/abusive supervision and employee voice. Design/methodology/approach A meta-analysis of 354 articles (427 effect sizes) were conducted ( N = 169,127) with a structural equation model. Findings (1) Direct effect studies showed that abusive supervision/ authoritarian leadership negatively affected employees’ promotive/prohibitive voice, among which authoritarian leadership is the explanation for promotive and prohibitive voices being stronger than that of abusive supervision. (2) Meta-analytic structural equation model shows that authoritarian leadership and abusive supervision reduce employees’ psychological safety and voice efficacy by weakening leadership–member exchange (LMX), inhibiting employee voice; they can reduce employees’ psychological safety and voice efficacy by weakening the relationship between superiors and subordinates guanxi (SSG) and reduce employee voice. Among them, authoritarian leadership has a greater effect on LMX than SSG, and abusive supervision has a greater impact on LMX than that of SSG. LMX has a greater impact on employees’ psychological safety than SSG, and SSG has a greater impact on employees’ voice efficacy than LMX. Originality/value The research reveals the relationship between authoritarian leadership/abusive supervision and employee voice and provides a reference for improving the leader channel of voice.

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@article{shengmin2025,
  title        = {{How does authoritarian leadership and abusive supervision suppress employee voice? A meta-analysis based on cognitive and resource perspectives}},
  author       = {Shengmin Liu & Zhiyu Ling},
  journal      = {Baltic Journal of Management},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/bjm-10-2024-0622},
}

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