The Benefits of Speaking Up More Versus Less Over Time: Consequences of Voice Trajectories

This presenter symposium brings together several papers that examine what happens after employees engage in voice behaviors, detailing the actions and reactions of employees and managers to voice events. These presentations address: the distinction between voice and silence and what happens when employees feel they must remain silent; how having someone speak up on your behalf increases manager perceptions of prosocial motivation and value of voice; manager perceptions of voice legitimacy based on the speaker’s gender, the content, and the method of delivery; how managers engage in voice justice and thereby shape employee reactions to voice (non)endorsement; and how managers interpret changes in voice over time. The symposium contributes to the voice literature by highlighting the role that attributions of employee voice have in determining manager reactions to voice and the role that such reactions play in driving future employee voice behaviors