“…Numerous researchers noted that the concept is characterized by individuals' positive word-of-mouth (WOM) behaviors that recommend or support their organization as well as the products and services (Tsarenko et al , 2018) to external publics such as friends or family members (Bettencourt and Brown, 2003; Fullerton, 2011) or potential employees (Schweitzer and Lyons, 2008) to seek reputation benefits for their organizations (Seiling, 2008). Several scholars have further argued that employee advocacy, as an external, boundary-spanning role (Tsarenko et al , 2018; Vlachos et al , 2017), is not limited to positive WOM but also includes defending a company when it is attacked by external forces (Walden and Kingsley Westerman, 2018), defining it as employees' voluntary promotion or defense of a company, brands and its products externally (Men, 2014). Kim and Rhee (2011) similarly captured the concept of the positive megaphoning of employees, referring to their intention to share positive information about their company externally to people around them (e.g.…”