When Employees Stop Talking and Start Fighting: The Detrimental Effects of Pseudo Voice in Organizations

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-230

  de Vries, Gerdien ^a   Jehn, Karen A ^b   Terwel, Bart W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deceit; Intragroup conflict; Pseudo voice; Voice behavior; Voice opportunity

Indexed keywords

EID: 82955212821     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0960-4     Document Type: Article

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