Analysis of the impact on employee performance to the climate of organizational silence and behaviors of employee silence : The case of the educational sector

Organizational silence is a concept that began to subject of the researches, recently. The concept of silence has become important by the understanding that the source of many problems is to remain silent of the employees. The employees exhibit silence behaviors based on several reasons. The silence behaviors based on indifference and submission, the silence behaviors based on self-defense and fear, the silence behaviors based on prosocial tendencies, the silence behaviors based on to protect relations are some of them. The attitude of the senior management or the section manager in the organizations, the lack of communication opportunities cause to turn into a climate of silence. It is seen that the perceived silence climate and silence behaviors of the employees are interacted. In this study, the climate of the organizational silence, silence behaviors of the employee and the performance notions are emphasized. To determine the interaction between these notions, a research is done on teachers which study on private educational institutions. By using obtained data, the relations between the sizes of the climate of the organizational silence, the size of the employee silence behaviors and performance of the employee are analyzed. Also, the demographic characteristics of teachers surveyed (age, gender, marital status, work experience, task, and department) with the climate of silence, silence behaviors and performance relation is investigated. As a result of this work, meaningful relations between the climate of the organizational silence, silence behaviors of the employees and the performance of the employees were determined. Furthermore, the perceptions of the climate of the organizational silence differ from the most of the silence behaviors and demographic characteristics of the performance. Keywords The Climate of Organizational Silence, The Silence Behaviors of the Employee, The Performance of the Employee