The Relationship Between Ethical Climate and Pro-Social Silence

Abstract

Based on the theories of organizational climate and employee silence, this paper studies the relationship between the organization climate and all variables of social silence, large number of studies have shown that pro-social silence is influenced by organizational ethical climate. We find that caring climate, law and code climate, rule climate and independence climate are positively associated with pro-social silence; instrumental climate is negatively associated with pro-social silence; at the same time, a high degree of obedience to authority will strengthen the rules climate and pro-social silence positive correlation.