Research About the Relation between Organizational Silence and the Performance of Workers

Abstract

Recently, organizations have begun to understand the importance of human resources about revealing innovations, maintaining productivity and realizing the evolution. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the levels of workers’ performance and organizational silence. Also it aims to find out whether there is a significant difference between the dimensions of organizational silence and performance levels with workers’ age, educational level, and profession, length of service and length of service of hospital. In the scope of research, a survey conducted with 391 nurses and the results were statistically analyzed. As a result of analysis, a relation was found between nurses’ performance and the nurses’ accepted silence, defensive silence and sonance, the silence and sonance for the benefit of organization. Any relation was not found between the accepted sonance and the workers’ performance. A negative correlation was found between workers’ performance and accepted silence, defensive silence/sonance. A positive correlation was found between the workers’ performance and silence/sonance for the benefit of organization.