• Hyma M
• Dr. Gangadathan Nair D

Silence is an indication of one’s attitude towards the problem or situation at hand. The main purpose of this study is to examine the various research findings on employee silence in the past and to develop a conceptual model on the reasons why employees remain silent at workplace. The causes of employee silence are found to be silence of peer employees, workplace bullying, effort to sustain valued relationships, organisational politics, negative organisational climate and fear of exploitation and isolation. This paper helps to find out the contradictions in the studies of different researchers and catch out the research gaps existing in this area of research. The review of previous literatures uncovered the indefinite usage of the terms ‘organisational silence’ and ‘employee silence’. There appears to be a weak link between silence behaviour and the profession. Also, the findings related to the link between organisational silence and organisational commitment is found as contradicting.

Employee Silence, Organisational Silence and Organisational Commitment

"EMPLOYEE SILENCE AT WORK PLACE – A LITERATURE REVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.758-767, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907252.pdf

"EMPLOYEE SILENCE AT WORK PLACE – A LITERATURE REVIEW", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp758-767, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907252.pdf