Employee Voice: Moderators and Predictive Factors Enhancing Prosocial Organisational Behaviour in Educational Environments

Abstract

Employee voice is a key-factor which fosters both personal and organisational development. However, in recent years, there is a concern sinceit appears that employees do not feel confident enough to speak out at work and hide their feelings and points. The scope of this research is to explore dimensions of organisational voice expressed by teachers at school, according to personal and contextual parametres. For our research purposes, 313 questionnaires were distributed to school teachers throughout Greece.The results revealthat teachers seem to express their own points and feelings actively and without fear. Moreover, they appear to vividly propose actions for the common good. Furthermore, it appears that there exists a strong relation between dimensions of voice, years in service, type of educational establishment and place of work while, gender does not affect the way teachers express themselves. We stress that, organisational voice as perceived and expressed in professional environments, constitutes an indicator and a valuable factor closely related to organisational effectiveness and development.