Organisational Silence

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1. Do you feel generally comfortable speaking to your immediate line manager about problems or issues that concern you at work?

2. How often do you feel you can't openly raise an issue of concern with your immediate line manager or other more senior managers?

3. Think of a specific instance in your current job where you have felt you could not, or should not, speak openly about a certain issue or issues. Please identify the issue, by either checking or putting an X against one of the options suggested or by adding a description under 'other'.

4. What made you feel you could not speak about it? (Please rank order the three most important by putting a number [1,2 or 3] next to it.

5. What do you think would have happened if you had expressed your concerns?

6. Are there general kinds of issues that you can’t raise with your boss or others above you? If yes, please indicate what these are.

7. If you identified issues in question 6: what inhibits you from speaking up about these types of issues or concerns (please rank order the three most important)

8. If you identified issues in question 6: Do you think your immediate colleagues share this feeling of unease/comfort?

9. Please indicate your gender and the 'home country' of the organisation you based the above answers on.

10. Please feel free to offer any further comments on the issues raised in this survey. Thank you.