No exit, no voice
Subtitle: the bind of risky voice opportunities in organizations
By: James R. Detert, Amy C. Edmondson
Contributors: Edmondson, Amy C.; Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 05-049; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 05-049
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Description: This article describes how people working in large organizations wrestle with the challenge of speaking up. Emphasizing the negative personal and professional consequences that might result from the reactions of those with authority to their ideas, people in this study predominantly chose not to speak up with substantive comments that they believed could help organization or themselves. Integrating prior theory with our new findings, we explain why silence is likely to be the modal behavior in risky voice opportunities, and propose a novel research agenda for predicting this emotionally intense form of silence.
Notes: "January 16, 2005"--Added t.p.

Includes bibliographical references.