TY - JOUR
T1 - Someone’s going to hear about this
T2 - Examining the Association between Dissent-Triggering Events and Employees’ Dissent Expression
AU - Kassing, Jeffrey
AU - Armstrong, Todd A.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The purpose of this study was to examine how the nature of dissenttriggering events influenced to whom employees chose to express dissent. This was accomplished by asking respondents to report the frequency with which they expressed upward dissent to managers and supervisors, lateral dissent to coworkers, and displaced dissent to people external to their organizations (i.e., family and nonwork friends) in response to different dissent-triggering events. Structural equation models were employed. Results revealed that employeeswere more likely to express dissent to supervisors and coworkers about issues related to their coworkers and about organizational functions such as decision making and organizational change than they were to express dissent about ethical practices and preventing harm to employees. Employees did not appear to differentiate the amount of dissent they expressed to people outside of their organizations as a function of dissent-triggering events.
AB - The purpose of this study was to examine how the nature of dissenttriggering events influenced to whom employees chose to express dissent. This was accomplished by asking respondents to report the frequency with which they expressed upward dissent to managers and supervisors, lateral dissent to coworkers, and displaced dissent to people external to their organizations (i.e., family and nonwork friends) in response to different dissent-triggering events. Structural equation models were employed. Results revealed that employeeswere more likely to express dissent to supervisors and coworkers about issues related to their coworkers and about organizational functions such as decision making and organizational change than they were to express dissent about ethical practices and preventing harm to employees. Employees did not appear to differentiate the amount of dissent they expressed to people outside of their organizations as a function of dissent-triggering events.
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U2 - 10.1177/0893318902161002
DO - 10.1177/0893318902161002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84990361319
SN - 0893-3189
VL - 16
SP - 39
EP - 65
JO - Management Communication Quarterly
JF - Management Communication Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -