Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of silence as a link between punishment, communication opportunities and stress. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a survey among 1,015 highly skilled employees of South Korean companies using a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between power distance, collectivism and relational silence; the associations between relational silence and stress; and the mediating role of relational silence in the link between power distance, collectivism and stress....