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Employee Voice Behavior: Integration and Directions for Future Research
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Within organizations, employees continually confront situations that put them face to face with the decision of whether to speak up (i.e., voice) or remain silent when they have potentially useful information or ideas. In recent years, there has been a rapidly growing body of conceptual and empirical research focused on better understanding the motives underlying voice, individual, and situational factors that increase employee voice behavior, and the implications of voice and silence for employees, work groups, and organizations. Yet this literature has notable gaps and unresolved issues, and it is not entirely clear where future scholarship should be directed. This article, therefore, is an attempt to review and integrate the existing literature on employee voice and also to provide some direction for future research.
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- Morrison, E. W.
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- New York University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Morrison, Elizabeth W.
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- Academy of Management Annals
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- Academy of Management
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- 2011-06
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- 5
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- 373-412
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- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Labor Movements and Unions
- Keywords
- employee voice, speaking up, silence, voice behavior, situational factors, personal factors, work teams, organizational implications
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