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The employees in family business organization put forward ideas, suggestions and opinions based on their ownexperience and knowledge to improve performance and efficacy. Due to various reasons, they sometimes chooseto hide their true thoughts or views. This kind of behavior is defined as employee silence. The article starts froma summary of the existing research on employee silence of family enterprises, such as definition, dimensions,antecedents and measurement methods, puts forward, and provides measurements to improvesustainable development of human resource management.
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To Cite this Article: Shah, I. A., Solangi, J. A., Lashari, A. A., Bhatti, A. G., Alkiany, S., & Hussain, A. (2020). Study on Employee Silence Behavior: An analysis on Pakistani Family Enterprise. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. 10(10), 580-588.
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