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Organizational Silence (Morrison & Milliken, 2000) - Weekend Classics
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English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:52:19 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:09:28 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:33:00 Reference Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison and Frances J. Milliken, 2000: Organizational Silence: A Barrier to Change and Development in a Pluralistic World. AMR, 25, 706–725, https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2000.3707697 Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit/ Paper Explainer Website https://mayukhpsm.github.io/organizational-silence/ 🎙️✨ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit , and this is Weekend Classics . I am always fascinated by the moments when people say nothing. Not because nothing is on their mind. Quite the opposite. Because sometimes the loudest thing in a workplace is the thing nobody dares to say out loud. 🤐 Today’s classic takes us to a remarkable paper published on 1 October 2000 in the Academy of Management Review , an FT50 listed journal . The paper is titled “Organizational Silence: A Barrier to Change and Development in a Pluralistic World” by Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison and Frances J. Milliken . 📚 And what these authors noticed feels almost painfully familiar. In many organizations, silence is not accidental. It is not an individual flaw. It is not just shyness, diplomacy, or caution. It is a system. A climate. A lesson people learn together. 🏢🔇 You begin to see how it happens. Managers fear negative feedback. Structures become centralized. Channels for honest communication disappear, or become decorative. Employees start to believe that speaking up is risky, futile, or both. So they watch each other. They read the room. They trade stories in hushed tones. And little by little, silence becomes culture. 🪞 What Morrison and Milliken gave us was not…