Triassic Deposits of Hrvatsko Zagorje

In the area of Hrvatsko Zagorje, Triassic deposits crop-out in the form of tectonic emplacements, forming the cores of all the major mountains. They also underlie Neogene deposits, as proven in numerous boreholes. During the Triassic period, continuous sedimentation occurred mainly in shallow marine environments, though transient subsidence occurred in the Anisian and Ladinian epochs. In the Lower Triassic, the nearshore clastic and carbonate sediments were deposited, which were succeeded in the Middle and Upper Triassic by shallow-water limestones. The latter for their most part have undergone later dolomitisation. Owing to rapid subsidence during Middle Anisian and Ladinian times, sedimentation of the fine-grained clastics, pelagic limestones and cherts occurred together with local volcanic intrusions

International differences in employee silence motives: Scale validation, prevalence, and relationships with culture characteristics across 33 countries

Employee silence, the withholding of work‐related ideas, questions, or concerns from someone who could effect change, has been proposed to hamper individual and collective learning as well as the detection of errors and unethical behaviors in many areas of the world. To facilitate cross‐cultural research, we validated an instrument measuring four employee silence motives (i.e., silence based on fear, resignation, prosocial, and selfish motives) in 21 languages. Across 33 countries (N = 8,222) representing diverse cultural clusters, the instrument shows good psychometric properties (i.e., internal reliabilities, factor structure, and measurement invariance). Results further revealed similarities and differences in the prevalence of silence motives between countries, but did not necessarily support cultural stereotypes. To explore the role of culture for silence, we examined relationships of silence motives with the societal practices cultural dimensions from the GLOBE Program. We found relationships between silence motives and power distance, institutional collectivism, and uncertainty avoidance. Overall, the findings suggest that relationships between silence and cultural dimensions are more complex than commonly assumed. We discuss the explanatory power of nations as (cultural) units of analysis, our social scientific approach, the predictive value of cultural dimensions, and opportunities to extend silence research geographically, methodologically, and conceptually