The relationships between organizational silence and school climate in primary schools

This research is carried out to find out the relationship between school climate and Organizational silence by using a survey model. The population of this research is 1977 primary school teachers who work in public schools (84) in the center of Batman and village of Batman, the sample of research consists of 347 primary school teachers. To get data collection in the research, the scale of organizational climate, developed by Hoy ve Tarter (1997), adapted to Turkish by Yılmaz ve Altınkurt (2013), and another scale of Organizational silence used which developed by Kahveci ve Demirtaş (2013). For statistical analysis of data percentage, frequency, average, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA test and analyze of Pearson correlation used in this research. Multiple regression analysis was used to identify level prediction of the independent variable that affects the dependent variable. As a result of this research and according to the view of teachers who participated in the research, school managers showed mostly supported school managers behavior and teachers showed at least the behavior of the insensible teacher behavior. Related to organizational silence the most average seen at the dimension of managers. It is under consideration this is because of lack of confidence originating from managers and self-righteousness. The least average of organizational silence is seen at the dimension of resource silence. The cause of silence can be an unfair environment, not to express feeling and thought easefully and situation of inexperience. There are significant differences between the opinions of participants related to school climate and perception of organizational silence. There are significant differences between factors of the scale of organizational climate and scale of organizational silence. According to the result of analysis of regression, factors of the scale of organizational climate express % 51 general change of scale of organizational silence. By this rate factors of the scale of organizational climate affect half of the change of organizational silence.