Voice In Context Research Articles

Voice in Context: The Influence of Situational Opportunities & Constraints on Employee Voice

Employee voice is critical to organizational functioning. A recent line of inquiry has begun to explore how context -- situational factors external to the voicer -- influence when and whether employees speak up. Predominantly, this research has focused on the role of the leader in eliciting or discouraging voice. This symposium explores research on voice and context beyond the influence of leadership to other critical aspects in the context. This symposium expands theory and research on the unexplored ways context influences when, how and whether members voice, along with the downstream consequences of voice. Fail to See Problems, Fail to Speak Up: How Trustworthy Leaders Inhibit Employee Voice Presenter: Hyunsun Park; U. of Maryland Presenter: Subrahmaniam Tangirala; U. of Maryland Presenter: E. S. Srinivas; Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Who Speaks to Whom? How Voice Flows Within and Across Demographic Faultlines in Teams Presenter: Limei Zhang; Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong U. Presenter: Vijaya Venkataramani; U. of Maryland Presenter: Subrahmaniam Tangirala; U. of Maryland Presenter: Liang Jian; Tongji U. Presenter: Jing Wu; BI Norwegian Business School Hearsay, Rumor, and Speaking Up about Other Employees’ Issues Presenter: Ethan Burris; U. of Texas at Austin Presenter: Taeya Howell; Brigham Young U. Presenter: Stephen Stubben; U. of Utah Presenter: Kyle Welch; George Washington U. More than Words: A Theory of Context Dependent Communication Style & Employee Voice Presenter: Giselle Elaine Antoine; U. of Washington, Seattle Presenter: Crystal I Chien Farh; U. of Washington Anxiety and Errors at Work: The Moderating Role of Promotive Team Voice Presenter: Zhanna Novikov; Stanford U. Presenter: Rangaraj Ramanujam; Vanderbilt U.

Voice in context: An international comparative study of employee experience with voice in small and medium enterprises

The study of employee voice in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across national contexts remains under-theorised and under-studied. This paper uses Kaufman’s integrative model of employee voice, and an exploratory study of 30 interviews with employees in non-unionised SMEs in the United Kingdom, Thailand and Nigeria, to compare the employee experience with voice, and the impact of this experience on voice behaviour at work. Findings show that the interaction between the external institutional context and internal SME context (organisational configuration, governance structure and internal contingencies in the employment relationship) impacts employee voice agency, the perceived levels of voice and, ultimately, employee voice behaviour. The paper contributes to employee voice theory by offering an analysis of voice determinants on voice behaviour specific to non-unionised SMEs from an international comparative employee perspective, presents these in an initial framework and explains how employees experience voice in small workplaces.

The Territory Between Speech and Song

Speech and song have frequently been treated as contrasting categories. We here observe a variety of collective activities in which multiple participants utter the same thing at the same time, a behavior we call joint speech. This simple empirical definition serves to single out practices of ritual, protest, and the enactment of identity that span the range from speech to song and allows consideration of the manner in which such activities serve to ground collectives. We consider how the musical elements in joint speech such as rhythm, melody, and instrumentation are related to the context of occurrence and the purposes of the participants. While music and language have been greatly altered by developments in media technologies—from writing to recordings—joint speech has been, and continues to be, an integral part of practices, both formal and informal, from which communities derive their identity. The absence of joint speech from the scientific treatment of language has made language appear as an abstract intellectual and highly individualized activity. Joint speech may act as a corrective to draw our attention back to the voice in context, and the manner in which collective identities are enacted.

Leaders’ accounts on employee voice in the Indian context: an exploratory study

This paper highlights the nature of individualistic employee voice in the context of contemporary Indian organisations. As the demand for knowledge workers increase, more organisations are finding that employee voice is critical for developing business intelligence. Yet, organisations often find their employees mostly silent despite the potential of knowledge sharing. Considering the benefits and the implicit costs associated with employee voice, the paper draws on senior executives’ accounts of employee voice that represent varied industry sectors and uses qualitative content analysis. The findings indicate broad themes around the nature, content, boundaries, avenues, and targets of voice along with its underlying mechanisms. The paper extends management perspectives on employee voice behaviour and contributes towards understanding the intricacies of individual dynamics and human experience in voice scholarship. The study has implications for Indian indigenous voice research and practice.

Student voice in a Chinese context: investigating the key elements of leadership that enhance student voice

This study examines the issues surrounding ‘student voice’ in a specific Chinese context, and assesses the key elements of leadership that could enhance student voice in that context. It reports the results of a research conducted in a community-based educational centre in Hong Kong that provides after-school educational and social adjustment programmes for children aged 6–15. Although the centre promotes the principle of student voice, the perceptions and attitudes of students and teachers towards this principle are found to be different. Analysis draws on several sources, including semi-structured interviews, observations and related documentation. Based on the data collected, the gaps between teachers’ and students’ perspectives of student voice are identified, and cultural perspectives are discussed. Student voice is found to be a key issue for children. The recommendations for institutional leaders who seek to promote this concept include valuing student voice, embracing a willingness to construct a new partnership with students and ensuring consistent whole-institution commitment.

From evolutionary roots to a broad spectrum of complex human emotions: Future research perspectives in the field of emotional vocal communication: Reply to comments on “Emotional voices in context: A neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing”

From evolutionary roots to a broad spectrum of complex human emotions: Future research perspectives in the field of emotional vocal communication: Reply to comments on “Emotional voices in context: A neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing”

“High” cognitive emotions in language prosody: Commentary on “Emotional voices in context: A neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing” by C. Brück, B. Kreifelts, & D. Wildgruber

“High” cognitive emotions in language prosody: Commentary on “Emotional voices in context: A neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing” by C. Brück, B. Kreifelts, & D. Wildgruber

‘Emotion’ ‘The essence of Human communication – The processing of emotional information’: Comment on: Brück C, Kreifelts B, Wildgruber D. Emotional voices in context: a neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing

‘Emotion’ ‘The essence of Human communication – The processing of emotional information’: Comment on: Brück C, Kreifelts B, Wildgruber D. Emotional voices in context: a neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing

Is the medium the message?: Comment on “Emotional voices in context: A neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing” by Brück et al.

Is the medium the message?: Comment on “Emotional voices in context: A neurobiological model of multimodal affective information processing” by Brück et al.

‘The Best Speaking Voices in the World’: Robert Donat, Stardom and the Voice in British Cinema

This article will consider in more detail ‘the medium of the voice itself’ by examining the significance of Robert Donat’s screen voice in the 1930s. Donat was known for having a particularly mellifluous and distinctive speaking voice and appreciation of his work was often framed in terms, paradoxically for film, of his vocal performance. Changing the criteria of investigation from visual to aural therefore permits us to interrogate and revitalise qualities of specifically British stardom in the 1930s. To put the Donat voice in context, I will look first at how voices on film were endowed with significant discursive potential in the 1930s, using evidence from newspapers, fan magazines and audience surveys which give some indication of the kind of values inscribed in the hearing of the actor’s voice at that time. During this period, British film was caught in crucial moments of transition and consolidation as practices were being transformed and constantly re-structured. As a result of this, binary oppositions developed in which the voice became the site of contested values. These can be broadly sketched as being: from pre-sound to talkie, with the transition from visual to synchronous audiovisual codes of performance; the question of accent and intelligibility, including Received Pronunciation versus Dialect, and American versus English; and for the stage trained actor, the transition of performance context from theatre to film, from the voice signalling role to the voice signalling the actor.