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Notwithstanding the research on employees’ voice – it was characterized as the discretionary transmission of perceptions, suggestions, opinions, ideas focused to enhance the organization’s functioning. There has been little attention given to the impact of shared or collective beliefs (Voice climate) and limited literature pertaining to voice climate and its importance in the frequency of voice in organizations. Research highlights critical gaps by focusing on the impact of felt obligation for constructive change in determining voice climate and employees’ voice behaviour, moreover it attempts to measure the moderation of psychological safety (PS) in establishing voice climate (VC) and employee voice linkage. The study was carried out by survey on 160 middle-level employees having a sales profile of banking/insurance organizations of Gwalior region (MP), India. Findings validate that with high psychological safety (PS) workgroup, the association between voice climate and employee voice behaviour was strong compared to low psychological safety group. Research contributes to the area of voice climate and employees’ voice and suggest avenues for future investigations.
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Chauhan, A.S., Banerjee, R. & Banerjee, S. Climate and Felt Obligation as Antecedents of Employee Voice Behaviour. Employ Respons Rights J 36, 63–77 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-022-09435-0
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