Abstract
Employees can help an organization to flourish by contributing their constructive
thoughts. However, employees withhold their expressions due to a number of
reasons. Such a behavior which is termed as employee silence may lead to
detrimental outcomes for the organizations and employees themselves. This paper
attempts to examine the relationship between four types of employee silence, i.e.
acquiescent, quiescent, opportunistic and prosocial silence, and subjective wellbeing directly and indirectly through the mediation of job satisfaction in
employees working in banking sector of Pakistan. Hierarchical multiple regression
analysis has been employed on the data collected from 275 employees. Results
demonstrate that three types of employee silence i.e. acquiescent, quiescent and
opportunistic silence have a negative impact on an employee’s subjective wellbeing and job satisfaction but, prosocial silence has no relationship with subjective
well-being. It is suggested that managers must adopt strategies and design
programs to reduce employee inhibitions and eliminate silence behaviors.
Sania Zahra Malik, Moattar Iqbal, Labiba Sheikh. (2020) Effect of types of employee silence on job satisfaction and subjective well-being, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 57, Issue 1.
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