Influence of organizational cultural identification on employees voice behavior in railway engineering enterprises
To stimulate the occurrence of employees' voice behaviour in railway engineering enterprises,this study focused on organizational cultural identification as the starting point and,based on social identity theory and self-determination theory. It introduced affective commitment and perceived organizational support as mediating and moderating variables to explore the mechanism of the influence of organizational cultural identification on employees' voice behaviour. A questionnaire survey was conducted among employees of China Railway Construction Corporation,China Railway Engineering Corporation,and China Communications Abstract:To stimulate the occurrence of employees' voice behaviour in railway engineering enterprises,this study focused on organizational cultural identification as the starting point and,based on social identity theory and self-determination theory. It introduced affective commitment and perceived organizational support as mediating and moderating variables to explore the mechanism of the influence of organizational cultural identification on employees' voice behaviour. A questionnaire survey was conducted among employees of China Railway Construction Corporation,China Railway Engineering Corporation,and China Communications Construction Group Corporation,using well-established scales for organizational cultural identification and voice behaviour. The collected data were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analysis using Mplus 8.0 and SPSS 27.0. Based on the confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analysis results,a structural equation model was established. The hypothesis testing was conducted using Mplus 8.0. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA 3.0) was used to analyze the comparative analysis of antecedents of voice behaviour. The structural equation model results are shown. The organizational cultural identification has a significant positive impact on affective commitment,and affective commitment positively impacted voice behaviour. In other words,affective commitment can playe a mediating role between organizational cultural identification and voice behaviour. The Organizational cultural identification has a significant positive impact on voice behaviour. The Perceived organizational support has a significant positive moderating effect on the impact of affective commitment on voice behaviour. The fsQCA analysis are shown. The five configurations can lead to voice behaviour,with organizational cultural identification as the core condition in the three dimensions,consistent with the structural equation model results. These findings enrich the boundary mechanisms and conditions of voice behaviour. Based on the binary perspective of "want to do" and "able to do",they reveal that organizational cultural identification has an essential influence on employees' psychological motivation to "want to voice" in the organizational work atmosphere and perceived organizational support ("able to voice") positively facilitates the conversion of employees' motivation to voice into actual voice behaviour. The results can provide suggestions and insights for managers in railway engineering enterprises in practice.