Purpose: Drawing from Adorno et al’s (1950) The Authoritarian Personality, this paper seeks to explain why some workers reject participation in decision-making on principle, preferring instead to defer to managerial authority and remain silent. Approach: The paper reviews the literatures on employee voice and silence and then builds a conceptual framework that can be used to explain employee si...

The objective of this paper is to apply real options techniques to justify the replacements of a Centrex PBX telephony solution for a new Voice over IP (VoIP) based solution. In this proposal we are looking at replacing the hardware components of managing a PSTN service with one which is hosted and managed from remote facility. We apply the real options approach to compare the Centrex based sol...

The relationship between psychological ownership (PO) and defensive voice to supervisor, the moderation of this by power distance orientation (PDO) are not examined in current research. To reduce harmful supervisor organisations, it was if PO (job or organisation) is negatively related supervisor. As research reports that PDO affects different predictor–employee relationships, moderating effect...

introduction: the every possible attempt in voice disorders assessment is to gather samples which represent individual s’ actual voice in the daily speech. the researchers have found that voice characteristics in reading a passage are closer to daily speech. making texts has been started since early 20th century. the lack o f suitable text in farsi language makes it difficult to conduct requisi...

Introduction: Laryngeal burns cause long-term voice disorders due to mucosal changes of the vocal folds. Inhalation injuries affect voice production and result in changes in the mucosal thickness and voice quality.   Case Report: A 47-year-old woman was transferred to our department with laryngeal burns sustained during a house fire. On laryngoscopic examination, mucosal waves of both vocal fol...

Based on social cognitive theory (SCT), we develop and test a model that links ethical psychological climate to ethically focused proactive behavior (i.e., voice taking charge) via two distinct mechanisms duty orientation moral potency). Results from multi-wave field studies conducted in the United States, Turkey, France, Vietnam, India demonstrate an indirectly influences employees' charge beh...

background : a head and neck (h&n;) cancer severely affect the voice and compromises the patient’s vocal independence. the present study proposed to investigate the difference in the three vital components of voice the pitch, jitter and shimmer in h&n; cancer patients and compared it with age matched healthy volunteers. methods : the voice parameters were ascertained in the freshly diagnosed h&...

BACKGROUND Within the last decade there has been a growth in the call-centre industry in the UK, with a growing awareness of the voice as an important tool for successful communication. Occupational voice problems such as occupational dysphonia, in a business which relies on healthy, effective voice as the primary professional communication tool, may threaten working ability and occupational he...