By examining the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employee voice behavior, this research makes several contributions
to the literature. First, we are among the first to explore whether traditional Chinese leadership exerts a negative effect on
employee voice behavior. The examination of this effect may deepen the current understanding of leadership influences on employee
voice behavior. Second, we simultaneously consider immediate supervisors (one level up from a focal employee) and supervisors'
managers (i.e., two levels up from a focal employee) in our model. This multilevel examination extends current knowledge about
the direct/indirect influence of skip-level leaders and the leader constellation on employee voice behavior. Third, our study deepens
the understanding of the cascading-down effect of leader behaviors by clarifying the contingent conditions under which such an effect
is either amplified or attenuated. Fourth, on the methodological front, we collected multisource data in different industries, answering
Detert and Burris's call for further research on leadership behaviors and employee voice behavior using data from several
sources and/or from various industries. Finally, this study enriches the authoritarian leadership literature by exploring its predictive
power from a multilevel perspectiver