Organizational Silence A Predictor of Organizational Commitment in Higher Education Institution

Abstract

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: how the organizational silence is related with organizational commitment and how it affects the employees. The focus is particularly on the higher education institutions in the federal territory.

Design/ Methodology/Approach-The scientific data which has been collected from the teachers of higher education in the form of survey questionnaire on which statistical techniques were implied. The sample size was consist of 80 teachers of public educational institutions out of which 55 were received and 44 were stand correct. The approach adopted in this study is exploratory in nature in order to explore relationship between organizational silence and organizational commitment.

Findings-In our findings any relationship of the dimensions of organizational silence in context of reasons why employees remain silent is not found with organization commitment. We believe that this must be related to the chosen organization. The correlation is found positive between organization silence and organizational commitment but regression analysis shows in significance of organizational silence with organizational commitment

Research limitations/ Implications-The sample used is relatively small due to lack of time and resources. The research is based upon higher education sector only.

Practical implications-Managers will find the study useful in evaluating the environment of organization for employees which feel silence behavior, including the level of organizational commitment for the employees.

Originality/Value-The study is focused on the different dimensions of organizational silence which include in the scale and correlates to something that is lacking in the literature. The paper will give birth to the debate and discussion of different dimensions of organizational silence in with the relationship of organizational commitment, and   contribute or plugin new experimental fact findings. It also focus on the increasing importance of the organizational silence which is prevailing in the organizations of the current era.

Keywords: Organizational silence; Organizational commitment; Higher education sector; Federal territory