Paper Title
Exploring the Relationship between Work-Life Balance and the Voice Behavior: The Mediating Effect of Positive and Negative Working Mood
Abstract
In recent years, work-life balance is an important indicator that the public and scholars are very concerned about. Government has set up a “work-life balance award” and gradually pay attention to the employees’ private life. The rise of awareness gave employees more opportunities to fight for their own rights. Therefore, if employees facing errors or dissatisfaction from the company system or procedures and affected their work-life balance, they will be able to take voice behavior to the supervisor and try to solve the problem to let the organization has a better operation, or indirectly lead it to an innovation realm. In this study, we use the "social cognition theory" and the "mood-as-information" as the theoretical basis to explore the relationship between the work-life balance and the employees voice behavior, and to further explore whether the employees’ positive or negative working mood has a mediating effect on its relationship. The study using network questionnaires to collect data. A total of 98 valid questionnaires were collected, and the linear regression was used to verify the main hypotheses. The results of this study showed that “the work involved in the personal life” level on the work-life balance has a significant effect on the employee working mood, but won’t impact on the promotivevoice behavior and preventive voice behavior. The work-life incentive level only has a significant effect for the employee working mood and promotivevoice behavior. There is no significant relationship between the work-life incentive and the negative working mood of employees or preventive voice behavior. The mediating effect of hypothesis are also no significant. Finally, the study will integrate the findings, practice implications and recommendations. Hope this study will be regard as a reference for helping organizations to redesign.
Keywords - Work-Life Balance, Working Mood, Voice Behavior, Social Cognition Theory, Mood-As-Information