The views of managers and teachers working in high schools about organizational silence

The aim of this study is to determine the views of managers and teachers working in high schools about organizational silence using various factors. The population of the study was composed of managers and teachers working in 19 high schools in Isparta city center in 2013-2014 academic years. The research sample was not composed from the related population but the questionnaire was applied to all administrators and teachers from the population of the research. The questionnaire was applied to 76 managers and 345 teachers. As a data collection tool, organizational silence scale was used. As an organizational silence scale, a scale which was produced by Dyne, Ang and Botero (2003) and translated in Turkish by Erdoğan (2011) was used. In data analysis, besides descriptive statistics as t-test, one way variance analysis and Tukey significance test was used. The data was analyzed by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 20.0 package program. According to the findings of the study, it is seen that the views of managers and teachers about organizational silence are similar to each other and close to "neutral". When looked if there is a significance difference between the gender variance and the teachers' view about the organizational silence, while there is no difference in acquiescent silence and prosocial silence, in quiescent silence it is seen that women are more silent than men. When looked if there is a significance difference between the gender variance and the managers' views about the organizational silence, similar to teachers, while there is no difference in acquiescent silence and prosocial silence, in quiescent silence it is seen that women managers are more silent than men managers. When looked if there is a significance difference between the branch variance and the teachers' view about the organizational silence, while there is no difference in prosocial silence, in acquiescent and quiescent silence, it has been found that teachers in vocational lessons branch are more silent than teachers in cultural lessons branch. When looked if there is a significance difference between the branch variance and the managers' view about the organizational silence, similar to the teachers, while there is no difference in prosocial silence, in acquiescent and quiescent silence, it is seen that managers in vocational lessons branch are more silent than managers in cultural lessons branch. When looked if there is a significance difference between the period of service variance and the teachers' views about the organizational silence, while there is no difference in acquiescent silence, in prosocial silence, teachers who have 1-5 and 6-10 period of service and in quiescent silence, the teachers who have 21 and above period of service are more silent than the others. When looked if there is a significance difference between the period of service variance and the managers' view about the organizational silence, while there is no difference in acquiescent and prosocial silence, in quiescent silence managers working 21 and above period of service are more silent than the others. When looked if there is a significance difference between the school variance they are working and the teachers' views about the organizational silence, while there is no difference in prosocial and quiescent silence, in acquiescent silence, the teachers working in vocational high schools are more silent. But there has been found no difference between the school variance they are working and the managers' views about the organizational silence.