Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 38 Issue 7

Guest editorial: Employee voice and silence in the health sector

Adrian Wilkinson, Paula Mowbray, Michael Barry, Ariel Avgar

Healthcare professionals' voice as a road to burnout and work engagement? The role of relational outcomes: An exploratory study of European countries

Micaela Pinho, Pedro Ferreira, Sofia Gomes

Healthcare professionals are key in healthcare organisations but are subject to long working hours and may have to make complex life-and-death decisions. As frontline agents…

React, reframe and engage. Establishing a receiver mindset for more effective safety negotiations

Melanie Barlow, Bernadette Watson, Kate Morse, Elizabeth Jones, Fiona Maccallum

The response of the receiver to a voiced patient safety concern is frequently cited as a barrier to health professionals speaking up. The authors describe a novel Receiver Mindset…

Professional disrespect between doctors and nurses: implications for voicing concerns about threats to patient safety

Emmanuel Kwasi Mawuena, Russell Mannion, Nii Armah Adu-Aryee, Francis A. Adzei, Elvis K. Amoakwa, Evelyn Twumasi

Previous research has demonstrated that social-relational factors are instrumental to employee voice. An essential aspect of this relates to notions of respect or disrespect…

Speak up! Factors that influence involvement of nurses in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings

Nadine Boesten, Melissa De Regge, Kristof Eeckloo, Mark Leys, Paul Gemmel, Bert R. Meijboom

Nurses are capable of acting as advocates for patients since they hold valuable knowledge on patient preferences and their psychosocial needs. Yet, in practice they tend to…

Allied health new graduates’ voice behavior – new perspectives using realist synthesized narratives

Philippa M. Friary, Lindy McAllister, Rachelle Martin, Suzanne C. Purdy, Mark Barrow

Effective voice behavior in healthcare workers is critical for patient safety, quality improvement and workforce well-being. A review of the literature on voice behavior in…

Website posts and the voice of frontline healthcare workers: a thematic analysis

Keren Semyonov-Tal

With the soaring rise in popularity of social media platforms in recent decades, the use of website posts for the expression of work-related views has also increased. Despite…

A voice system or a voice maze? Navigating employee voice in a hospital setting

Adrian Wilkinson, Michael Barry, Leah Hague, Amanda Biggs, Paula Brough

In recent years, in research and policy circles, there is growing interest in the subject of speaking up (and silence) within the health sector, and there is a consensus that it…

Intersectional employee voice inequalities and culture care theory: the case of migrant palliative care nurses in Saudi Arabia

Julie Davies, Thamina Anjuman, Zeyad Al Ghamdi, Saud Altamimi, Sheikh Mateen Ellahi, Moza Al Thani, Frank Huang, Yara Alsoqair, Rawan Alshehri

This narrative literature review examines intersectional employee voice inequalities in a non-Western, high power distance context to develop a multilevel conceptual framework.