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Boat-Rocking in the High-Technology Culture
Jo Sprague,Gary L. Ruud +1 more
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This article is published in American Behavioral Scientist.The article was published on 1988-11-01. It has received 93 citations till now.read more
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Organizational Silence: A Barrier to Change and Development in a Pluralistic World
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there are powerful forces in many organizations that cause widespread withholding of information about potential problems or issues by employees and refer to this collective-level phenomenon as "organizational silence".
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Leadership Behavior and Employee Voice: Is the Door Really Open?
James R. Detert,Ethan R. Burris +1 more
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between two types of change-oriented leadership (transformational leadership and managerial openness) and subordinate improvement-oriented voice in a two-phase study and found that openness is more consistently related to voice, given controls for numerous individual differences in subordinates' personality, satisfaction, and job demography.
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An Exploratory Study of Employee Silence: Issues that Employees Don’t Communicate Upward and Why*
TL;DR: The authors found that the most frequently mentioned reason for remaining silent was the fear of being viewed or labeled negatively, and as a consequence, damaging valued relationships, while the social and relational implications of speaking up can take away employees' ability to have influence within an organizational setting.
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Reflections on the Looking Glass: A Review of Research on Feedback-Seeking Behavior in Organizations:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present and organize the results of two decades of research on feedback-seeking behavior according to three motives: the instrumental motivation to achieve a goal, the ego-based motivation to protect one's ego, and the image-based motive to enhance and protect one’s image in an organization.
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Silenced by fear:: The nature, sources, and consequences of fear at work
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on research from disciplines ranging from evolutionary psychology to neuroscience, sociology, and anthropology to unpack fear as a discrete emotion and to elucidate its effects on workplace silence, and present a deeper understanding of the nature of fear experiences, where such fears originate, and the different types of employee silence they motivate.
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Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life
TL;DR: For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer explicit guidelines for diagnosing the state of one's own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done as discussed by the authors.
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Technics and Civilization
TL;DR: The first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years was made by Lewis Mumford as discussed by the authors, who argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our industrially driven economy.
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Corporate cultures: The rites and rituals of corporate life : Addison-Wesley, 1982. ISBN: 0-201-10277-3. $14.95
TL;DR: For junior and senior managers alike, Deal and Kennedy offer explicit guidelines for diagnosing the state of one's own corporate culture and for using the power of culture to wield significant influence on how business gets done.
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Occupational Communities: Culture and Control in Organizations
TL;DR: This article developed the concept of an occupational community as a framework for analyzing the phenomenological boundaries of work worlds and showed how research on occupational communities can broaden our knowledge of careers, control, conflict, and innovation, topics traditionally approached from an organizational perspective.