Effects of collectivist orientation as a mediated variable between employees’ ethical leadership and employee voice toward psychological well-being of employees’ provincial employment office in the Western regions of Thailand

Abstract

          The objectives of this study were to investigate the effect of collectivist orientation as a mediated variable which was to change the relationship between ethical leadership and employee voice and change the relationship between employee voice of employees and psychological well-being of employees’ Provincial Employment Office in the western regions of Thailand. The quantitative research investigated 100 samples of employees’ Provincial Employment Office in the western regions of Thailand, analyzed by structural equation modeling, and path analysis with Process program. Results of the research revealed that: the mediated effect of collectivist orientation toward the path relationship between ethical leadership and employee voice (EL-->EV) was at 0.01 of a statistical significance level. This was to say; the collectivist orientation and ethical leadership had influenced the changes in the employee voice. The ethical leadership affecting the employee voice was increased by the level of collectivist orientation. The mediated effect of collectivist orientation toward the path relationship between employee voice and psychological well-being (EV-->PW) was at 0.01 of a statistical significance level.  This showed that collectivist orientation and employee voice had affected the psychological well-being changes and the collectivist orientation had influenced the increase of both psychological well-being and collectivist orientation.