Undergraduates (N=216) participated in a managerial inbasket simulation while being periodically interrupted by videotaped depictions of a subordinate performing at 1 of 2 levels of task performance, helping and voice. After completion of the simulation, participants made decisions about how much of a pay increase to provide the subordinate, whether to promote him and whether to recommend him f...

Purpose – This study aims to examine how systems for organizing information may present an authorial voice and shows how the mechanism of voice may work to persuasively communicate a point of view on the materials being collected and described by the information system. Design/methodology/approach – The paper synthesizes a conceptual framework from the field of rhetoric and composition and uses...

Organizational interventions that draw on participatory processes to tap into the views of workers can benefit both health and their organizations. However, frameworks used develop organizational are often described in a generic, ‘one-size-fits-all’ manner. Considering specific needs diverse groups such as migrants is important, given current migration rates globally. Using literature migrant v...

Soliciting and incorporating employee voice is essential to organizational performance, yet some managers display a strong aversion to improvement-oriented input from subordinates. To help to explain this maladaptive tendency, we tested the hypothesis that managers with low managerial self-efficacy (that is, low perceived ability to meet the elevated competence expectations associated with mana...

While employee voice has been realized a critical element of organizational success, many employees often remain silent and withdraw useful information and ideas. In this paper, we present how employees utilize existing social media platform in a creative, collective way to anonymously share their voices—a phenomenon called the bamboo forests in Korea. We present the key characteristics of bamb...

This study develops and tests operational definitions of relational maintenance strategies appropriate to online public relations. An experiment was designed to test the new measures and to test hypotheses evaluating potential advantages of organizational blogs over traditional Web sites. Participants assigned to the blog condition perceived an organization’s ‘‘conversational human voice’’ to b...