Organizations increasingly need people who openly express their new ideas and
make valuable suggestions for change in order to proactively respond to the challenges of
a dynamic business environment. Accordingly, an important question to answer in
developing a better understanding of employee voice is what motivates and influences
employees to speak up. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the
antecedents and processes influencing employee voice behavior. Specifically, this study
sought to investigate whether organizational learning capability and power distance
orientation moderate the relationship between empowering leadership and employee
voice behavior, and further examined the effects of empowering leadership and
organizational learning capability on voice behavior, as mediated by psychological
empowerment.