The relation of organizational silence with happiness: Case of Gediz Elektrik Dağıtım A. Ş.

Organizations, which is constantly evolving within modern management structure, and increasing competition conditions expect their own employees to take more responsibility so as to meet dramatically rise of quality level and expectations of customer, increasing day to day and take initiative, consult each other, and exchange views on basic of mutual trust when its necessary. It indicates problem in organization "organizational silence" if employees consciously refrain from giving opinion about job and job-related issues in terms of improvment and development. Do you aware of how happy person having such features can be? These are constantly debated as follows: what is happiness, how could it be reached, what level can it be on determination of human behaviour, why do people desire it. This research aim to show in which subjects employees remain silence and to determine happiness level of those ones, subjected to organizational silence. In that respect, It is also important to figure out whether there is a correlation between organizational silence and their happiness of Gediz Elektrik Dağıtım A.Ş.'s employees. This research is significant because there has not been scientifically studied on organizational silence and happiness so it will shed light on next researches as a unique one in its field. The research consists of three main parts. In first section, concept of organizational silence and concept of happiness in second section are assessed. In third section on relationship between the two specified concepts, datas are collected by survey method in order to achieve the purpose of the research, and analysis results have taken place here. On this occasion, the survey implementation has been carried out on 52 employees in Gediz EDAŞ in İzmir, 46 employees in Gediz EDAŞ in Tire, 33 employees in Gediz EDAŞ in Bayındır. 94 out of 131 surveys distributed as a whole have been taken and analyzed. In our survey we found a negative relationship between organizational silence and happiness. It is analyzed that If there is a dinstinction between variables and demographic factors by independent - samples t test and anova in research. Organizational silence differs according to employee's genders and happiness differs according to employee's marital status. Keywords: Organizational Silence, Happiness