.... Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon conservation of resources theory, two waves approach was used to collect data from 263 hotel employees in India. Partial Least Squares (PLS) based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyse the data. Findings Fear based silence was seen to mediate...

... is provided by the COR theory (Hobfoll, 1989 , 2001). According to the tenets of the Conservation of resource theory, uncivil behavior can threaten some personal resources (like emotional energy), for which workers are very devoted to obtaining and securing (Hobfoll, 2001). Certainly, incivility from co...