{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/test-whether-silence-means-agreement",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9107",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Test whether silence means agreement",
  "summary": "Silence is ambiguous evidence.",
  "kind": "question",
  "body": "Ask for explicit confirmation of the decision and, for consequential choices, ask what concern people would raise if they had to challenge it. Use asynchronous input where public dissent is costly.",
  "limits": [
    "Psychological safety does not mean agreement, low standards or protection from consequences. Keep respectful challenge separate from unaccountable behavior."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-lead-without-authority-stakeholder-systems"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-493AB5604F2E78B2"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 136 independent samples linked psychological safety with multiple workplace antecedents and outcomes at individual and group levels.",
      "source_id": "RS-493AB5604F2E78B2",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The synthesis combines varied designs; it supports a bounded association, not a guarantee that any single speaking-up technique causes better performance.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When a decision receives no objections in a hierarchy or cross-cultural group."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Psychological safety does not mean agreement, low standards or protection from consequences. Keep respectful challenge separate from unaccountable behavior."
  ],
  "example": "A sponsor asks workstream owners to confirm acceptance and submit one private risk after a steering decision.",
  "check": "Agreement is supported by explicit confirmation or evidence, not inferred from absence of speech.",
  "question": "Can each owner state the decision in their own words? · What concern would they raise if forced to challenge it? · Would asynchronous input reveal different information?",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-493AB5604F2E78B2",
      "title": "Psychological Safety: A Meta-Analytic Review and Extension",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12183"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9107",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9108",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/escalate-process-risk-without-attacking-motives"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-47952011564F7728",
      "title": "Lead without formal authority: stakeholder decisions, delegation, voice, and team learning",
      "url": "/collections/lead-without-formal-authority-stakeholder-decisions-delegation-voice-and-team-learning"
    }
  ]
}