Leader’s integrity and employee silence in healthcare organizations

Whistle Blowing: A Message to Leaders and Managers; Comment on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organizations”

This comment argues that instead of worrying about the pros and cons of whistleblowing one should focus on the more general problem of the failure of upward communication around safety and quality problems and consider what leaders and managers must do to stimulate subordinates to communicate and reward such communication. The article analyzes why safety failures occur and introduces the concep...

whistle blowing: a message to leaders and managers; comment on “cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in healthcare organizations”

this comment argues that instead of worrying about the pros and cons of whistleblowing one should focus on the more general problem of the failure of upward communication around safety and quality problems and consider what leaders and managers must do to stimulate subordinates to communicate and reward such communication. the article analyzes why safety failures occur and introduces the concep...

Whistle Blowing: A Message to Leaders and Managers Comment on "Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organizations".

This comment argues that instead of worrying about the pros and cons of whistleblowing one should focus on the more general problem of the failure of upward communication around safety and quality problems and consider what leaders and managers must do to stimulate subordinates to communicate and reward such communication. The article analyzes why safety failures occur and introduces the concep...

Debunking four myths about employee silence.

In the latest phase of our decade’s worth of research on organizational silence, we piggybacked six questions onto the annual Cornell National Social Survey to explore how and when employees hold back. As you’d expect, they clam up when they’re afraid that speaking could get them into trouble. But surprisingly, the most common reason for withholding input is a sense of futility rather than fear...

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