A research on the determination of relationship between employee silence and cultural values in public organisations in Izmir

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The purpose of this study is to ascertain whether cultural values have interaction with employee silence. For this purpose sampling data was collected from 306 public employee in İzmir via survey method. In order to measure the statement’s exploratory power of variables, first ,factor analysis was used. Later, multiple regression analyses was conducted to test the hypotheses. Due to the research findings there is a significant statistical relationship between employee silence and cultural values. When the findings are evaluated in terms of the employee silence types; it was seen that public employees remain silent because of pro-social drivers and they show an undecisive (unstable) attitude regarding the expected acquiescent silence behaviour because of the nature of the public institutions .

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Silence , Employee Silence , Cultural Values

Ege Academic Review (EAR)

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Ege Academic Review (EAR)