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You are a colonel in the U.S. Army, responsible for running an Afghanistan prison that houses captured Taliban and al-Qaeda soldiers. A newly captured soldier is found to be in possession of documents that indicate an imminent operation targeting American soldiers. Traditional interrogation of the soldier has not yielded any results, and you are concerned that lives will be lost if the captive soldier cannot be made to reveal what he knows about the imminent attack. Believing that time is running out, you consider authorizing the use of brutality in order to hopefully extract the information before lives are lost. Your dilemma is known as:

Identify various forms of organizational communication including voice, rumors, and the grapevine.

Analyze the impact of employee characteristics on the likelihood of voicing concerns.

Discuss the differences between voice directed horizontally and vertically within organizations.

Examine the consequences of silence or self-censorship in organizations.

Definitions:

Demographic Transition

A model that describes the transformation of a country's population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates.

Industrialization

Industrialization refers to the process by which an economy is transformed from primarily agricultural to one based on the manufacturing of goods, leading to technological innovation and changes in society.

Food Production

The process of cultivating crops and livestock for human consumption, encompassing agriculture, aquaculture, and other cultivation methods.

Total Fertility Rate

The average number of children a woman is expected to have over her lifetime, given current birth rates.