Voice & Silence

Employee voice, speaking up, silence, and the mechanisms and barriers to organisational voice.

Papers (111)

• Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams (Edmondson, 1999)
• The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (Edmondson, 2018)
• Conceptualizing Employee Silence and Employee Voice as Multidimensional Constructs (Van Dyne, Ang & Botero, 2003)
• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (Crenshaw, 1989)
• Distinguishing Voice and Silence at Work: Unique Relationships with Perceived Impact, Psychological Safety, and Burnout (Sherf, Parke & Isaakyan, 2021)
• Employee Voice and Silence (Morrison, 2014)
• Employee Voice and Silence: Taking Stock a Decade Later (Morrison, 2022)
• Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States (Hirschman, 1970)
• Language and Symbolic Power (Bourdieu, 1991)
• Men and Women of the Corporation (Kanter, 1977)
• On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction (Goffman, 1955)
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1970)
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Goffman, 1956)
• A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson, 1974)
• An Exploratory Study of Employee Silence: Issues That Employees Don't Communicate Upward and Why (Milliken et al, 2003)
• Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters (Kernick, 2021)
• Communication Failures: An Insidious Contributor to Medical Mishaps (Sutcliffe, Lewton & Rosenthal, 2004)
• Embers of Society: Firelight Talk among the Ju/'hoansi Bushmen (Wiessner, 2014)
• Employee Silence: Quiescence and Acquiescence as Responses to Perceived Injustice (Pinder & Harlos, 2001)
• From Titanic to Costa Concordia — a Century of Lessons Not Learned (Schröder-Hinrichs et al, 2012)
• Helping and Voice Extra-Role Behaviors: Evidence of Construct and Predictive Validity (Van Dyne & LePine, 1998)
• Leadership Behavior and Employee Voice: Is the Door Really Open? (Detert & Burris, 2007)
• Learning from the Piper Alpha Accident: A Postmortem Analysis of Technical and Organizational Factors (Paté-Cornell, 1993)
• On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy (Rogers, 1961)
• Organizational Silence: A Barrier to Change and Development in a Pluralistic World (Morrison & Milliken, 2000)
• Safety Voice and Safety Listening During Aviation Accidents: Cockpit Voice Recordings Reveal That Speaking-Up to Power Is Not Enough (Noort, Reader & Gillespie, 2021)
• Selling Issues to Top Management (Dutton & Ashford, 1993)
• Silenced by Fear: The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Fear at Work (Kish-Gephart, Detert, Treviño & Edmondson, 2009)
• Silent Spring (Carson, 1962)
• Speaking Up and Speaking Out: The Leadership Dynamics of Voice in Organizations (Ashford et al, 2009)
• Speaking Up in the Operating Room: How Team Leaders Promote Learning in Interdisciplinary Action Teams (Edmondson, 2003)
• Speaking Up to Higher-Ups: How Supervisors and Skip-Level Leaders Influence Employee Voice (Detert & Treviño, 2010)
• Speaking Up to Prevent Harm: A Systematic Review of the Safety Voice Literature (Noort, Reader & Gillespie, 2019)
• Status and Cockpit Dynamics: A Review and Empirical Study (Milanovich et al, 1998)
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (hooks, 1994)
• The Criminalization of Human Error in Aviation and Healthcare: A Review (Dekker, 2011)
• The Liking Gap in Conversations: Do People Like Us More Than We Think? (Boothby et al, 2018)
• The Possibilities of Accountability (Roberts, 1991)
• The Social Consequences of Voice: An Examination of Voice Type and Gender on Status and Subsequent Leader Emergence (McClean et al, 2018)
• The Vulnerable System: An Analysis of the Tenerife Air Disaster (Weick, 1990)
• Voice is Not Enough: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Lundy, 2007)
• What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety (Edmondson & Kerrissey, 2025)
• Who Takes the Floor and Why: Gender, Power, and Volubility in Organizations (Brescoll, 2011)
• Building a Fearless Organization: A Fieldbook for Creating Psychological Safety at Work (Edmondson & Kerrissey, 2026)
• Culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service: overview of lessons from a large multimethod study (Dixon-Woods et al., 2014)
• Development and Validation of the Organizational Dissent Scale (Kassing, 1998)
• Error, stress, and teamwork in medicine and aviation: cross sectional surveys (Sexton, Thomas & Helmreich, 2000)
• Experimental Evidence for Tipping Points in Social Convention (Centola et al, 2018)
• Exploring Newcomer Voice and Silence Dynamics: The Role of Organizational Socialization (Reissner, Guenter & de Jong, 2024)
• Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation (Karpowitz, Mendelberg & Shaker, 2012)
• Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes (Janis, 1982)
• Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-Granted Rules of Self-Censorship at Work (Detert & Edmondson, 2011)
• Inclusive Leadership and Employee Involvement in Creative Tasks in the Workplace: The Mediating Role of Psychological Safety (Carmeli, Reiter-Palmon & Ziv, 2010)
• Joint Problem-Solving Orientation in Fluid Cross-Boundary Teams (Kerrissey et al, 2021)
• Lessons from Everest: The Interaction of Cognitive Bias, Psychological Safety, and System Complexity (Roberto, 2002)
• Making it Safe: The Effects of Leader Inclusiveness and Professional Status on Psychological Safety and Improvement Efforts in Health Care Teams (Nembhard & Edmondson, 2006)
• Making soft intelligence hard: a multi-site qualitative study of challenges relating to voice about safety concerns (Martin et al., 2018)
• Moving off the Map: How Knowledge of Organizational Operations Empowers and Alienates (Huising, 2019)
• On the Receiving End: Sensemaking, Emotion, and Assessments of an Organizational Change Initiated by Others (Bartunek et al, 2006)
• Overcoming Walls and Voids: Responsive Practices That Enable Frontline Workers to Feel Heard (Kerrissey et al., 2024)
• Power Distance Belief and Workplace Communication: The Mediating Role of Fear of Authority (Dai et al, 2022)
• Psychological Antecedents of Promotive and Prohibitive Voice: A Two-Wave Examination (Liang, Farh & Farh, 2012)
• Quitting Before Leaving: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Attachment and Detachment on Voice (Burris et al, 2008)
• Reaping the Benefits of Task Conflict in Teams: The Critical Role of Team Psychological Safety Climate (Bradley et al, 2012)
• Reflections: Voice and Silence in Workplace Conversations (Edmondson & Besieux, 2021)
• Silence in Organizations and Psychological Safety: A Literature Review (Pacheco et al, 2015)
• Silence That May Kill: When Aircrew Members Don't Speak Up and Why (Bienefeld & Grote, 2012)
• Straight Talking: The Sociolinguistics of Heterosexuality (Cameron, 2014)
• Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten Principles. A White Paper — Moving Towards Safety-II (Shorrock et al, 2014)
• Taking Your Team Behind the Curtain: The Effects of Leader Feedback-Sharing and Feedback-Seeking on Team Psychological Safety (Coutifaris & Grant, 2021)
• The Cost of Silence: Normalization of Deviance and Groupthink (Wilcutt & Bell / NASA, 2014)
• The Deepwater Horizon Explosion: Non-Technical Skills, Safety Culture, and System Complexity (Reader & O'Connor, 2014)
• The Influence of Psychological Safety and Confidence in Knowledge on Employee Knowledge Sharing (Siemsen et al, 2009)
• The Unintended Consequences of No Blame Ideology for Incident Investigation in the US Construction Industry (Sherratt et al, 2023)
• Voice Flows to and around Leaders: Understanding When Units Are Helped or Hurt by Employee Voice (Detert, Burris, Harrison & Martin, 2013)
• Voices Unheard: Employee Voice in the New Century (Wilkinson et al, 2018)
• Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England (Levon et al., 2021)
• Accountability: A Lived Experience (Parris, 2025)
• Artificial Intelligence and the Surrogation of Human Work (Shorrock, 2026)
• Authority Gradients Between Team Workers in the Rail Environment: A Critical Research Gap (Luva & Naweed, 2021)
• Can We Say the N-word? Exploring Psychological Safety During Race Talk (Williams, Woodson & Wallace, 2016)
• CAP 737: Flight-crew Human Factors Handbook (CAA, 2023)
• Coping with Uncertainty: The Interaction of Psychological Safety and Authentic Leadership in their Effects on Defensive Decision Making (Artinger et al, 2025)
• Creating the conditions for psychological safety and its impact on quality coach-athlete relationships (Jowett et al., 2022)
• Cultural Diversity and Crew Communication (Fischer & Orasanu, 1999)
• Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood: Psychological Safety, Black Girls' Speech, and Black Feminist Perspectives on Directness (Woodson, 2020)
• Enviable Support: How and When Advantageous Voice Endorsement Fosters Employee Silence (Song et al, 2026)
• Hierarchy in the Cockpit: How Captains Influence the Decision-Making of Young and Inexperienced First Officers (Fabre et al., 2022)
• Individual Involvement and Intervention in Quality Improvement Programmes: Using the Andon System (Everett & Sohal, 1991)
• Racial disparities in automated speech recognition (Koenecke et al., 2020)
• Resuscitating the Socratic Method: Student and Faculty Perspectives on Posing Probing Questions During Clinical Teaching (Abou-Hanna et al, 2021)
• Risk, Ambiguity, and the Savage Axioms (Ellsberg, 1961)
• Safe on Paper and Silent in Practice: Challenging District Narratives (Christopher, 2026)
• Safety in High-Reliability Organizations: The Role of Upward Voice, Team Learning, and Safety Climate (Silla, Gajudo & Gracia, 2025)
• Scientific Medical Conferences Can Be Easily Modified to Improve Female Inclusion: A Prospective Study (Salem et al, 2021)
• Sex and Power in Interaction: Conversational Privileges and Duties (Kollock, Blumstein & Schwartz, 1985)
• Shared Leadership in Multiteam Systems: How Cockpit and Cabin Crews Lead Each Other to Safety (Bienefeld & Grote, 2014)
• The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation (Clark, 2020)
• The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management (Perkins et al, 2022)
• The Role of Communication Values in Swift Starting Action Teams: IT Insights from Flight Crew Experience (McKinney et al, 2004)
• Walking the Plank: An Experimental Paradigm to Investigate Safety Voice (Noort, Reader & Gillespie, 2019)
• Wanted – straight talkers: stammering and aesthetic labour (Butler, 2014)
• "Have you heard!?" The narrative roots of organizational silence (Pferner, 2026)
• 360 Degree Feedback: Beyond the Spin (Silverman, Kerrin & Carter, 2005)
• Exploring the Core of Crew Resource Management Course: Speak Up or Stay Silent (Espevik, Saus & Olsen, 2017)
• How safe is too safe? A dual-pathway framework for understanding the dark side of psychological safety (Cangiano, 2026)
• Lost in Transcription: Identifying and Quantifying the Accuracy Biases of Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Against Disfluent Speech (Mujtaba et al., 2024)
• Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement (Repenning & Sterman, 2001)
• Present but Useless: Why Power and Culture Create Structural Silence in the Cockpit (Guo & Yang, 2026)
• The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies (St. Pierre, 2012)
• The Relationship Between Organizational Dissent and Organizational Bullshit (Croucher et al., 2026)