International Differences in Employee Silence Motives: Scale Validation, Prevalence, and Relationships with Culture Characteristics across 33 Countries

Knoll, Michael; Götz, Martin; Adriasola, Elisa; Al‐Atwi, Amer Ali; Arenas, Alicia; Atitsogbe, Kokou A; Barrett, Stephen; et al

doi:10.1002/job.2512

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Knoll, M., Götz, M., Adriasola, E., Al‐Atwi, A. A., Arenas, A., Atitsogbe, K. A., Barrett, S., & et al. (2021). International Differences in Employee Silence Motives: Scale Validation, Prevalence, and Relationships with Culture Characteristics across 33 Countries. Journal of Organizational Behavior, job.2512. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2512

Abstract

Employee silence, the withholding of work‐related ideas, questions, or concerns from someone who could effect change, has been proposed to hamper individual and collective learning as well as the detection of errors and unethical behaviors in many areas of the world. To facilitate cross‐cultural research, we validated an instrument measuring four employee silence motives (i.e., silence based on fear, resignation, prosocial, and selfish motives) in 21 languages. Across 33 countries (N = 8,222) representing diverse cultural clusters, th