AN INVESTIGATION OF EMPLOYEE SILENCE IN TERMS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15659/3.sektor-sosyal-ekonomi.18.02.871Keywords:
Employee Silence, Demographic Factors, Silence Climate, Dimensions of Employee Silence, Results of Employee Silence.Abstract
Employee silence, which contains not disclosing emotions, thoughts and opinions related to employees’ organizations and remaining silent, harm to organizations and therefore seen as undesirable behavior in organizations. The study aimed to reveal the relationship between employees’ silence and the demographic characteristics of emploees. The study was conducted by analyzing the results of the survey which conducted with 700 people working in public and private sectors in line with the hypotheses formed. T-test and one-way analysis of varience (ANOVA) were used to determine whether the employees differ according to their demographic characteristics, who participated in the study. According to research findings, it was determined that gender, education, age, marital status, total working time, working time in the institutioan, administrative duty status showed statistically significant differences in the level of subscale of employee silence.
