or remain
silent when they have potentially useful information or ideas. In recent
years, there has been a rapidly growing body of conceptual and empirical
research focused on better understanding the motives underlying voice,
individual, and situational factors that increase employee voice behavior, and
the implications of voice and silence for employees, work groups, and organizations.
Yet this literature has notable gaps and unresolved issues, and it is
not entirely clear where future scholarship should be directed. This article,
therefore, is an attempt to review and integrate the existing literature on
employee voice and also to provide some direction for future research.