Voice and Whistleblowing in Organizations: Overcoming Fear, Fostering Courage and Unleashing Candour

by Cary L. Cooper and Ronald J. Burke

This book examines the decision to speak out in organizations or to keep silent, the roles of fear and courage, and why increasing valid information and truth is central to individual and organizational health. Employees in organizations face countless daily situations in which they make a choice to speak up, exercise voice, or remain silent. Too many choose to remain silent. Others only tell supervisors what they want to hear, becoming 'yes' men...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781005915
• ISBN13: 9781781005910
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 392 Pages