Index

Sivaram Vemuri (Charles Darwin University)

Managing Silence in Workplaces

ISBN: 978-1-78973-446-1, eISBN: 978-1-78973-445-4

Publication date: 15 August 2019

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Vemuri, S. (2019), "Index", Managing Silence in Workplaces, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 111-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-445-420191018

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INDEX

Abilene paradox
, 51

Accounting
, 89

Acquiescent silence
, 32

Administration
, 88–89

Agency component
, 63

Aggregation
, 20

Ambiguity
, 3, 64

Arbitration services
, 58

Attentive listening, silence of
, 43

Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)
, 68

Bias
, 1

Bounded-rationality construct
, 8

Brundtland Commission report
, 21

Business

literature
, 21

strategy approach
, 16

Capital-intensive technologies
, 8

Career development
, 56

Causal attribution
, 62

Change management
, 7, 14, 20

Chi-square tests
, 47

Climate
, 56

Cognitive consistency
, 62

‘Cohesive’ public sector culture
, 73–74

Communication
, 17, 78

mediums
, 15

processes
, 87

Complaining
, 48

Conceptualising silence
, (see also Paying attention to silence), 23

employee participation
, 24–27

as form of workplace communication
, 23–24

productive and allocative efficiency of resource allocation
, 24

Conscious awareness of silence
, 4

Coping

behaviour classes
, 58

strategies
, 55–60

Corporate Leadership Council
, 10

Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
, 2, 8

Costs of silence
, 4–6

Cronbach value
, 47

Cultural/culture
, 71, 87

and communication
, 91

organisations
, 20

Deaf ear syndrome
, 51

Decision making
, 18, 20–21, 93

in contemporary societies
, 19

context
, 63

measures of silence in
, 47

policy
, 20

Decision(s)
, 60–64

makers
, 19, 21

Defensive silence
, 32–33

Diffusion
, 20, 31

of responsibility
, 50

Direct action
, 58

Discretionary effort
, 5

Disengaged workers
, 11

Dissatisfied employees
, 24

Dominance condition
, 28

‘Domino effect’ of change
, 11

Drag coefficient of employee
, 5

Effectiveness
, 18

Efficiency
, 18

Emotion(s)
, 14, 39

Emotional release (ER)
, 58

Employee assistance programmes (EAPs)
, 57

Employee participation
, (see also Women’s participation), 15, 24–27, 34

curve depicting combinations of voice and silence
, 29

dynamics influencing
, 37

models
, 28–29

stages
, 37–38

Employee silence
, 1, 5–6, 13–16, 32, 45, 52, 95–96

intangible costs
, 6

perception
, 3

quiescent and acquiescent dimensions
, 26

Employee(s)
, 78

behaviour
, 31–32

communication
, 13

dissatisfaction
, 25

elasticity of pressures
, 35, 38

employee/employer relationship
, 16

engagement and disengagement
, 9–11

non-participation
, 23

perspectives
, 93

voice
, 48

Empty rhetoric
, 43

Enthusiasm
, 67

Environmental organisations
, 20

Equal pay for equal work
, 18

Equity
, 18

Ethical change policy
, 20

Ethics
, 18, 20–21

Ethics of Silence
, 14

Evolutionary nature of paradigms
, 8

Exit
, 39–40

Exit, voice and loyalty framework (EVL framework)
, 25

construct
, 26

Hirschman’s framework of
, 25

External forces
, 36

F tests
, 47

Fear, silence of
, 43

Feelings of hopelessness
, 39

Finance
, 89

Gender

equity
, 9

relations
, 9

Gestalt’s ideas and principals
, 53

‘Glass ceilings’ for women
, 9

Goal-directed behaviour
, 62

Golden rules
, 54

Groupthink
, 50

Helplessness
, 38, 58

Helplessness (Seligman)
, 65

Holistic processing of information
, 61

Honeymoon period
, 37

Hope
, 37–38, 63–64, 68

changing levels
, 65

measurement framework based on
, 64–65

in organisational context
, 67

Hopelessness
, 39, 42

silence of
, 43

Human index
, 9

Human resource (HR)

challenge
, 21

managers
, 17, 40

policies
, 71

strategies
, 18

Impression formation
, 53–55, 62

‘In-between’ spaces
, 18–19, 31

Individual choice sets
, 27, 31

Individual employees
, 2, 5, 15, 17, 23, 35–37, 39–40, 61, 97, 99

Infusion
, 19, 31

Innovation
, 6, 9

Insolent silence
, 43

Intangible costs of employee silence
, 6

Internal forces
, 36

Issue selling to top management
, 49

Job withdrawal
, 52

Labour-intensive technologies
, 8

Leadership behaviour
, 71

Learned behaviours
, 15

Learning organisations
, 13

Line managers
, 40

Long-term silence shifts
, 3

Loyalty
, 25, 50

Mainstream human resource management paradigms
, 9

Management
, 85, 89

portfolio of management skills
, 13

style
, 56

Managers
, 2–3, 7, 11, 13, 16–17, 21, 34, 41

five-step process
, 42

in hierarchical organisations
, 25

importance paying attention to silence
, 14–15

line and HR
, 40

manager–employee interactions to coping with stress
, 60

‘#Me too’ movement
, 14

Meetings
, 4

Modified Beck Helplessness score (mBHS)
, 68–69

Motivational condition
, 28

Movements in workplace
, 34–40

Multivector analysis of employee silence in organisations
, 26

‘MUM effect’
, 25, 51

Neglect
, 50

Noise
, 15

‘Non-profitable’ aspects
, 20

Non-satiation condition
, 28

OCB
, 48, 51

Occupational domain factors
, 58

Occupational Health and Safety
, 59

Oppressed silence
, 43

Optimistic action
, 58

Organisation(al)
, 20, 62

change
, 48

creativity
, 6

culture and relationship
, 93

goals
, 5

justice
, 48

learning
, 48

role in
, 56

structure
, 56, 91, 93

Organisational silence
, (see also Employee silence), 26, 32–33, 52

Over time
, 4, 25, 91

changing future perspective of employees
, 78

employees
, 83, 92

silence behaviour over time in agency
, 86

Parallel constraint satisfaction processes
, 62

Passive attempts to tolerate (PAT)
, 58

Pathways component
, 63

Paying attention to silence
, 13, 45

ethics and decision making
, 20–21

managers, importance of
, 14–15

silence, voice and pluralism
, 17–20

transdisciplinary framework, importance of
, 15–17

Perceptions
, 1, 64

Platinum rule
, 41, 54

Pluralism
, 17–20

Pluralistic ignorance
, 50

Positive comparisons
, 58

Positivity in workplace
, 62

Postpone action (PA)
, 58

Power imbalances
, 14

Preparatory action
, 58

Principled organisational dissent
, 49

Privacy condition
, 28

Private sectors
, 71, 84–86, 88–93, 94–95

Process of recovery and preparation (PRAP)
, 58

Production process innovations
, 8

Production-structure process
, 8

Profession Review Development System
, 40

Prosocial silence
, 32–33

Protective silence
, 32

Public sectors
, 71, 93–95

agency A
, 75–79

agency B
, 80–84

agency findings
, 84–86

agency result
, 86–88

management reforms
, 72–73

Public–private partnerships
, 74

‘Quiescent and acquiescent dimensions’ of employee silence
, 26

Quiescent silence
, 32–33

Rational task-oriented behaviours (RTOB)
, 58

Real-world contexts

assessment of management of silence in workplaces
, 95–96

combining public sector agency result
, 86–88

combining public/private sector agency findings
, 84–86

commonalities between public and private sectors
, 93–94

context of workplace and internal structure and process
, 75

differences between public and private sector
, 94–95

organisational structure
, 93

private sector
, 88–93

public sector agency A
, 75–79

public sector agency B
, 80–84

Rebuilding process
, 14

Reflection
, 19

Relationships at work
, 56

Risks
, 1

Saliency condition
, 28

Scream
, 40

Selective ignoring
, 58

Self-actualisation
, 36

Self-assessment
, 36

Self-reflection
, 36

Self-response
, 36

Self-understanding
, 36

Seminal study
, 5

Silence
, (see also Employee silence; Workplace), 1, 3, 13, 17–21, 45, 80

of attentive listening
, 43, 57

causes of
, 61

communication medium
, 15

conscious awareness
, 4

in contemporary workplaces
, 15

coping strategies
, 55–60

costs
, 4–6

decision making
, 47

decisions
, 60–64

of fear
, 43

framework for
, 66–69

of hopelessness
, 43

impression formation
, 53–55

insolent
, 43

management implications
, 65–66

measurement
, 45–46

measurement framework based on hope
, 64–65

multitude meanings
, 48–52

need to managing
, 2–4

of oppressed
, 43

possibility of using existing body of work on silence
, 47

proposed changes
, 53

seven modalities
, 14

unrecognised
, 4

Silent employees
, 6, 16, 23

early identification
, 13

Silent killer(s)
, 1, 64

Slacks
, 25

Social

organisations
, 20

ostracism
, 51

responsibility
, 72

service
, 85

studies in social psychology
, 54

Specification
, 19

‘Spiral of silence’
, 25, 51

Stress in workplaces
, 56–57

‘Stretched’ targets
, 16

Substitution of rewards
, 58

‘Survival’ responses
, 16

t-tests
, 47

Talk to others
, 58

Tangible benefits
, 10

Task design
, 56

360-degree feedback
, 16

Transdisciplinary approach
, 15–17, 27, 58

Uncertainties
, 11

Unrecognised silence
, 4

Use of home resources (UHR)
, 58

Value(s)

creation
, 7

and management processes
, 71

Voice
, 15, 17–20, 25

Whistleblowing
, 26, 48

Withdrawal behaviour
, 58

Women’s participation
, (see also Employee participation)

as board members
, 9

in market
, 8–9

Work–life balance
, 57

Workplace

assessment of management
, 95–96

conditions/concerns
, 57

dynamics influencing employee participation
, 37

and internal structure and process
, 75

management implications
, 40–43

managerial responses in different silence zones
, 41

movements
, 34–40

significance of managing silence in
, 6–7

silence as form of workplace communication
, 23–24

silence in
, 31, 39, 71