Table 4.

Dimensions of employee silence

LevelAuthor (year)Dimension
Individual-levelVan Dyne et al. (2003) acquiescent silence
defensive silence
prosocial silence
Vakola and Bouradas (2005) developed based on Morrison and Milliken (2000) organizational silence theoretical framework
Zheng et al. (2008) acquiescent silence
defensive silence
disregardful silence
Tangirala and Ramanujam (2008) five items were adapted from Van Dyne et al. (2003) scale and were modified for the hospital context
Detert and Edmondson (2011) single dimension
Knoll and Van Dick (2013) quiescent silence
acquiescent silence
prosocial silence
opportunistic silence
Brinsfield (2013) deviant silence
relational silence
defensive silence
diffident silence
ineffectual silence
disengaged silence
Jain (2015) fear of retaliation
internal motivation
self-competence
self-image
Source: Authors’ own work

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