Evaluating the Influence of Employee Voice on Employee's Performance and Creativity through the Mediating Role of Job Engagement

Employee voice, due to its role in improving the employee's and organization's performance, has attracted the attention of researchers and managers in recent years. This study aims at developing an employee voice scale customized to Iran's context and also evaluating the influence of employee voice on employee's performance and creativity through the mediating role of job engagement. This study is considered as applied considering its aim and as descriptive- correlative study considering the way data is gathered. Knowledge employees of Kaleh Company were selected as the population of this research. Census sampling was used and 234 questionnaires were distributed among the respondents for gathering data. Explorative factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural modeling tests were used for data analysis. The results of testing the hypotheses indicate that employee voice has significantly positive effect on job engagement. Results also prove that job engagement has positively significant effect on employee's performance both directly and indirectly through the mediating role of creativity.