20.500.12556/RUL-127476 International differences in employee silence motives scale validation, prevalence, and relationships with culture characteristics across 33 countries Employee silence, the withholding of work-related ideas, questions, or concerns from someone who could effect change, has been proposed to hamper individual and collective learning as well as the detection of errors and unethical behaviors in many areas of the world. To facilitate cross-cultural research, we validated an instrument measuring four employee silence motives (i.e., silence based on fear, resignation, prosocial, and selfish motives) in 21 languages. Across 33 countries (N = 8,222) representing diverse cultural clusters, the instrument shows good psychometric properties (i.e., internal reliabilities, factor structure, measurement invariance). Results further revealed similarities and differences in the prevalence of silence motives between countries, but did not necessarily support cultural stereotypes. To explore the role of culture for silence, we examined relationships of silence motives with the societal practices cultural dimensions from the GLOBE Program. We found relationships between silence motives and power distance, institutional collectivism, and uncertainty avoidance. Overall, the findings suggest that relationships between silence and cultural dimensions are more complex than commonly assumed. We discuss the explanatory power of nations as (cultural) units of analysis, our social scientific approach, the predictive value of cultural dimensions, and opportunities to extend silence research geographically, methodologically, and conceptually. work organization corporate culture knowledge transfer context cross-cultural research culture employee silence voice delovna organizacija vodenje kultura podjetja prenos znanja true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2021-06-09 14:22:46 2021-06-09 14:43:49 2022-09-06 03:51:32 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021 0 0 Str. 619-648 iss. 5 Vol. 42 Jun. 2021 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 331.108 0894-3796 10.1002/job.2512 54152707 RAZ_Knoll_Michael_2021.pdf RAZ_Knoll_Michael_2021.pdf 1 B261131433F37E7754E5C0932D0F8245 493b09a9a2731f7e6f087d7e58c7f4febea7ce645297395b2ac0c63140f19be3 a1f68a80-c91e-11eb-a523-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=143888 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/job.2512 0 aa78d1c0-c91e-11eb-a523-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=143889 Ekonomska fakulteta 0 0 0