{
  "title": "Psychosocial risks: what does a team’s silence mean?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/risques-psychosociaux-silence-equipes-sion-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-10-05",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "An absence of reports can reassure management. Research instead invites us to examine what employees feel able to say, and what happens when they say it.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Psychosocial Risks",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Amy C."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism of organisational silence",
      "point": "Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison and Frances J."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It is sometimes inferred that encouraging everyone to speak up would be enough to prevent [psychosocial risks](/formation/risques-psychosociaux/sion)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence and reporting arrangements do not tell us",
      "point": "The field study on psychological safety does not establish general causality, while the model of silence sets out theoretical propositions rather than testing an intervention."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "In Sion, an organisation working in hydropower, healthcare, viticulture or Alpine tourism could test the same protocol, adapted to its working hours and seasonal patterns."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Edmondson",
      "year": "1999",
      "source": "Administrative Science Quarterly"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Milliken",
      "year": "2000",
      "source": "Academy of Management Review"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 420,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-Training-Psychosocial-Risks-Sion-risques-psychosociaux-silence-equipes-sion-en.jpg?v=4",
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  },
  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/risques-psychosociaux/sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}