Despite the importance of ethical voice for advancing ethics in organizations, we know little about how coworkers respond to ethical voice in their work units. Drawing on the fundamental approach/avoidance behavioral system and the promotive and prohibitive distinction in the voice literature, we distinguish between promotive and prohibitive ethical voice and propose that they engender different emotions-elevation (an approach-oriented moral emotion) and feelings of threat (an avoidance-oriented emotion), respectively, in coworkers. We propose that these emotions differentially influence coworker subsequent responses to the ethical voice behavior. In a time-lagged critical incident survey and two experimental studies, we consistently found support for our hypothesis that promotive ethical voice elicits moral elevation in coworkers with subsequent coworker verbal support for the ethical voice (an approach-oriented response). However, results for prohibitive ethical voice were more complex because prohibitive ethical voice leads to mixed emotions in coworkers. It sometimes leads to feelings of threat, with indirect negative effects via threat on coworker support. But surprisingly, it also leads to coworker elevation and hence can have positive indirect effects via elevation on coworker support. We will discuss the research and practical implications of these findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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促进性和禁止性的道德声音：同事的情绪和对声音的支持。

尽管道德声音对于促进组织中的道德规范非常重要，但我们对同事如何回应工作单位中的道德声音知之甚少。借鉴基本的接近/回避行为系统以及声音文献中促进性和禁止性的区别，我们区分了促进性和禁止性道德声音，并提出它们产生不同的情绪——提升（一种以接近为导向的道德情感）和威胁感（同事中分别存在回避型情绪）。我们认为这些情绪会不同地影响同事随后对道德声音行为的反应。在一项滞后的关键事件调查和两项实验研究中，我们一致发现支持我们的假设，即促进道德声音会引起同事的道德提升，随后同事对道德声音的口头支持（一种以方法为导向的反应）。然而，禁止性道德声音的结果更为复杂，因为禁止性道德声音会导致同事的复杂情绪。它有时会导致威胁感，并通过威胁同事的支持产生间接的负面影响。但令人惊讶的是，它也会导致同事的提升，因此可以通过提升同事的支持来产生积极的间接影响。我们将讨论这些发现的研究和实际意义。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2022 APA，保留所有权利）。