The Collective Silence

Author(s):  
Barbara Heimannsberg
Keyword(s):  
2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fay Anderson
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2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Huang ◽  
Evert Van de Vliert ◽  
Gerben Van der Vegt

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.


Eos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly Cartier

To be silent is to be complicit in our own destruction because racism destroys us all. But not being silent entails more than publishing statements. There is also the collective silence of inaction. —No Time for Silence


2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1021-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dionne R. Powell

Both historically and currently, assaults on the black body and mind have been ubiquitous in American society, posing a counterargument to America as a postracial, color-blind society. Yet the collective silence of psychoanalysts on this societal reality limits our ability to explore, teach, and treat the effects, both interpersonal and intrapsychic, of race, racism, racialized trauma, and implicit bias and privilege. This silence, which challenges our relevance as a profession, must be explored in the context of America’s racialized identity as an outgrowth of slavery and institutional racism. Racial identifications that maintain whiteness as a construct privileged over otherness are an obstacle to conducting analytic work. Examples of work with racial tensions and biases illustrate its therapeutic potential. The challenge for us as clinicians is to acknowledge and explore our racial bias, ignorance, blind spots, and privilege, along with identifications with the oppressed and the oppressor, as contributors to our silence.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Astrid Treffry-Goatley ◽  
Naydene de Lange ◽  
Relebohile Moletsane ◽  
Nkonzo Mkhize ◽  
Lungile Masinga

Sexual violence in the higher education is an epidemic of global proportions. Scholars conclude that the individual and collective silence that surrounds such violence enables its perpetration and that violence will only be eradicated when we break this silence. In this paper, we used two participatory visual methods (PVM), collage and storytelling, to explore what sexual violence at university looks like and what it means to woman students. Two groups of student teachers in two South African universities were engaged in collage and storytelling workshops in late 2017 and early 2018, respectively. We thematically analyzed the issues that emerged from the data, drawing on transformative learning theory to explore how our approach might help women students to break the silence around sexual violence and stimulate critical dialogue to address it. Our analysis suggests that these visual tools enabled deep reflections on the meaning and impact of sexual violence, particularly for women. In addition, the participatory process supported introspection about their experiences of sexual violence and their responses to it as bystanders in and around campus. More importantly, they discussed how they, as young women, might break the silence and sustain new conversations about gender and gender equality in institutions and beyond.


2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Beck Kritek

The author presents her reflections on the concept of moral courage that have evolved from her life’s work in the area of conflict and conflict resolution. Her profound analysis uncovers issues behind nursing’s collective silence when action may be needed.


2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda K Mohr ◽  
Sara Horton-Deutsch

This article discusses some of the most recent developments in US mental health services that follow on the heels of the for-profit hospital scandal that was brought to public attention less than a decade ago. As individuals and as a profession, nurses have a responsibility to uncover, openly discuss and condemn malfeasance when it occurs, yet there has been a collective silence about these developments. The authors explore the reasons for this and make recommendations for regaining nursing’s moral voice and integrity.


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