International differences in employee silence motives : scale validation, prevalence, and relationships with culture characteristics across 33 countries

Knoll, Michael (avtor), Götz, Martin (avtor), Adriasola, Elisa (avtor), Bogilović, Sabina (avtor), Černe, Matej (avtor)

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.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: work organization, corporate culture, knowledge transfer, context, cross-cultural research, culture, employee silence, voice
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2021
• Št. strani: Str. 619-648
• Številčenje: Vol. 42, iss. 5
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-127476
• UDK: 331.108
• ISSN pri članku: 0894-3796
• DOI: 10.1002/job.2512
• COBISS.SI-ID: 54152707
• Datum objave v RUL: 09.06.2021

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Journal of organizational behavior
• Skrajšan naslov: J. organ. behav.
• Založnik: Wiley
• ISSN: 0894-3796
• COBISS.SI-ID: 212499

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva-Nekomercialno-Brez predelav 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: Najbolj omejujoča licenca Creative Commons. Uporabniki lahko prenesejo in delijo delo v nekomercialne namene in ga ne smejo uporabiti za nobene druge namene.
• Začetek licenciranja: 03.03.2021

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: delovna organizacija, vodenje, kultura podjetja, prenos znanja