Author(s)

Yali Chen

School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

In this study, we explored the generation and influence mechanism of employees’ silence behavior from the perspectives of different relationship with colleagues and leaders. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 226 employees to investigate the possibility of employees’ silence behavior in organizational situations. The results of regression analysis show that: 1) Colleagues’ exclusion has a significant positive effect on employees’ silence behavior; 2) Psychological security has a significant negative effect on employee silence behavior, and psychological security plays a part mediating role between colleagues exclusion and silence behavior; 3) Supervisor support has a significant negative moderating effect on the relationship between colleague exclusion and psychological security.

Employee Silence, Colleague Exclusion, Supervisor Support, Moderated Mediating

Chen, Y. (2018) Can Supervisor Support Mitigate the Impact of Colleague Exclusion on Silence Behavior?—A Moderated Mediating Model. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 6, 132-145. doi: 10.4236/jss.2018.610011.