Breaking the Silence Culture: Stimulation of Participation and Employee Opinion Withholding Cross-nationally

Xu Huang; Evert Van de Vliert; Gerben Van der Vegt

doi:10.1111/j.1740-8784.2005.00023.x

Breaking the Silence Culture: Stimulation of Participation and Employee Opinion Withholding Cross-nationally

Xu Huang
, Evert Van de Vliert
, Gerben Van der Vegt

Department of Management, Marketing and Information Systems

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Abstract

We investigated the relationship between the national cultural value of power distance and collective silence as well as the role of voice-inducing mechanisms in breaking the organizational silence. Using data from 421 organizational units of a multinational company in 24 countries, we found that both formalized employee involvement and a participative climate encouraged employees to voice their opinions in countries with a small power distance culture. In large power distance cultures, formalized employee involvement is related to employee voices only under a strong perceived participative climate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	459-482
Number of pages	24
Journal	Management and Organization Review
Volume	1
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-8784.2005.00023.x
Publication status	Published - Nov 2005

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