Monday, February 21, 2011

Climate of silence







  • Climate of silence is detrimental to organizations' ability to change and develop in the context of pluralism.
  • Climate of silence also has destructive outcomes on employees:
  1. Employees' feelings of not being valued
  2. Employees' perceived lack of control
  3. Employees' cognitive dissonance
  • If you experience fear every day, it drags you down and you become cowardly.
  • After my suggestions were ignored, the quality of my work was still there, but I wasn't.
  • See the Figure from Morrison and Milliken's (2000) article below on the negative effects of organizational silence on organizational decision making, organizational change, employees' feelings, cognition, etc.














From Organizational Silence: A Barrier to Change and Development in a Pluralistic World,
Morrison and Milliken, Academy of Management Review, 25( 4), pp. 706-725

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