Raising Concerns at Work in the Swedish Healthcare and Educational Sectors: Silence and Voice Climates

Abstract This article is based on an interview study of workers in Sweden’s healthcare and educational sectors who raise or withhold concerns about conditions at the workplace. Five groups climates regarding raised internally were found: A high voice climate, a moderate restrained resignation silence fear climate. democratic leadership orientation lays foundation for climate trust open dialogue. Silence are created by autocratic retaliative orientation. Also, laissez-faire can have silencing effect workplace Autocratic hierarchical view communication silencers both externally. If organisations exposed to competition, loyalty towards tends be strengthened order protect brand, thus having raising As consequence, teacher practise self-censorship conceal problems their school, thereby protecting school’s reputation market.