in a recent article, mannion and davies argue that there are a multitude of ways in which organizations (such as the national health service [nhs]) can deal with wrongdoing or ethical problems, including the formation of policies that encourage and protect would-be whistleblowers. however, it is important to distinguish internal reporting about wrongdoing from whistleblowing proper, because the...

development of any organization largely depends on the proper use of its human resources. as organizations become much larger, these problems are naturally added to these enormous labor force. one of the topics organizational communities of irancan be considered as a unfamiliar subject and less likely to be found in research is the phenomenon of organizational silence; despite the fact that sil...

Organizational silence is defined as the lack of effective interactions among staff and it stands opposite to the concept of organizational voice. In the present research, the purpose is to measure the silence behavior among the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI) staff before and after the implementation of a comprehensive suggestion system. A suggestion system is an internal struc...

This study explores Thai university students’ perceptions of their reluctance in verbal classroom participation especially situations where English is used as the medium for instruction. It generally perceived that non-native learners particularly from high context cultures such Thailand have tendency to remain silent during discussion sessions or when they are asked participate activities rela...

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...

the current study aims to examine the  effect of glass cliff on work engagement with the mediator roe of organizational silence. the statistical population consists of all formal staff of women in bu-ali university of hamedan, totally 88,   among which 52  were selected by stratified random sampling method. data were gathered through three questionnaires, the glass cliff, organizational silence...