The Impact of Leader Coaching Behavior on Engineers’ Motivation to Learn and Voicing Behavior

Notwithstanding its growth in organizational practice and related literature, few studies have explored the impact of leader coaching behavior.* In addition, team participation and leadership have been emphasized in the engineering and engineering education literature. A two-wave study of 291 engineering firm employees and 58 engineering division leaders participated in this study examining the relationships among perceived leader coaching behavior and engineering employees’ voicing, affective and learning related reactions. In particular factors influencing employees’ perceived ability and willingness to voice opinions and perspectives while participating in day-to-day work activities were examined and found to significantly impact engineering employee reactions. These study results have implications for engineering-related leadership, workplace training, management of workplace quality and productivity, and higher education.