Breaking the Silence Culture: Stimulation of Participation and Employee Opinion Withholding Cross-nationally
研究跨国企业中权力距离文化价值观与集体沉默的关系，发现正式员工参与和参与氛围能鼓励低权力距离文化中的员工建言，而在高权力距离文化中，正式参与仅在强参与氛围下才有效。
We investigated the relationship between the national cultural value of power distance and collective silence as well as the role of voice-inducing mechanisms in breaking the organizational silence. Using data from 421 organizational units of a multinational company in 24 countries, we found that both formalized employee involvement and a participative climate encouraged employees to voice their opinions in countries with a small power distance culture. In large power distance cultures, formalized employee involvement is related to employee voices only under a strong perceived participative climate.