Voice influence on trust is moderated by power distance only for supervisor judgments.

Evidence

The results showed that while voice had a significant main effect on both relational/supervisor evaluation and collective/leader evaluation, the voice effect was significantly stronger on relational/supervisor evaluation than on collective/leader evaluation. Moreover, replicating a previous finding of the moderating effect of power distance on voice (Brockner et al., 2001), the effect of voice was significantly stronger among those low on power distance than among those high on power distance, but only on the dependent variable of relational/supervisor evaluation. When the manager is evaluated as a group leader, however, power distance showed no moderating effect on voice. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2352 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Power distance moderates voice effects only in supervisor, not leader, evaluations. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2352; Leaders gain authority only by voicing the group’s unformulated intentions

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