# Profs Elizabeth Morrison and Kelly See's research on employee silence in the workplace is featured

1 Faculty News September 8, 2014 ![Fox Business logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031722.jpg?itok=a0Gxu60a)>

Excerpt from [Fox Business](http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/legal-hr/2014/09/09/why-employees-wont-tell-what-really-think/) -- "'A low sense of power makes people feel less confident and optimistic, meaning that employees will be less likely to believe that speaking up will make a difference,' [Elizabeth Morrison](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/elizabeth-morrison), one of the study's authors and a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, told Business News Daily. 'This feeling of "why bother?" has been found to be a strong inhibitor to speaking up.'"

[Read more](http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/legal-hr/2014/09/09/why-employees-wont-tell-what-really-think/)

Additional coverage appeared on [Business News Daily](http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7084-employees-speak-up.html).