Relationship between nurse’s voice and self‐leadership: A time‐lagged study
Zhenxing Gong, Lyn M. Van Swol, Fēi Li, Faheem Gul Gilal
Abstract
AIM: Less empirical attention has been paid to the positive relationship between voice behaviour and voice speaker development, such as self-leadership. The present study explores the relationship among nurses' voice, perceived insider status and self-leadership. METHOD: This study was based on time-lagged survey data collected from 608 frontline nurses. jamovi and PROCESS macro were used for analysis. RESULTS: Promotive voice and prohibitive voice were positively associated with self-leadership. Perceived inside status mediated the relationship between promotive voice/prohibitive voice and self-leadership. Prohibitive voice was more strongly related to self-leadership than promotive voice. CONCLUSIONS: When nurses dare to voice, nurses' self-leadership can be enhanced through perceived insider status improving, especially for nurses who dare to prohibitive voice. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Nurse managers should protect the privacy of voice, continually provide feedback on voice and set up special encouragement for prohibitive voice.