‘whistleblowing’ has come to increased prominence in many health systems as a means of identifying and addressing quality and safety issues. but whistleblowing – and the reactions to it – have many complex and ambiguous aspects that need to be considered as part of the broader (organisational) cultural dynamics of healthcare institutions.

Abstract Background and Purpose: Implicit voice theories are the beliefs that related to employee silence. This study aims examine implicit (don’t embarrass boss in public, negative career consequences of voice) as predictors defensive silence constructive voice. Methodology: is a cross-sectional an analytical study. The sample this consisted 494 participants working healthcare sector (n = 277)...

We present an experimental analysis of on-off patterns in Voice over IP (VoIP), where we study the talk-spurt/gap distribution produced by two modern silence detectors: ITU G.729 Annex B Voice Activity Detector (VAD) and NeVoT Silence Detector (SD). The results indicate that spurt/gap distributions are fairly sensitive to both the sound volume and the type of silence detectors, but all of them ...

For transporting voice data with silence suppression over the Internet, the problem of jitter introduced from the network often renders the speech unintelligible. It is thus essential to offer intramedia synchronization to remove jitter while retaining minimal playout delay. We have previously proposed a neural– network–based intra–voice synchronization mechanism, called Intelligent Voice Smoot...

Silence suppression, an essential feature of speech communications over the Internet, saves bandwidth by disabling voice packet transmission when silence is detected. On the other hand, silence suppression enables an adversary to recover talk patterns from packet timing. In this paper, we investigate privacy leakage through the silence suppression feature. More specifically, we propose a new cl...

Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of peer ethical behavior and individual differences in valuation fairness vs loyalty on whistleblowing intentions academic settings. also tests underlying mechanism responsible for reporting intentions, namely, fear reprisal. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted with 947 undergraduate students. The model tested using ordinary least sq...

Health and safety representatives (HSR) have the power to issue provisional improvement notices (PIN) their employer for breaches. This paper examines how PINs influence workplace dynamics or employee voice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with HSRs other key stakeholders. They provided details of organisations which used form three case studies. Some did not believe PINS would be req...