Abstract:

This study is descriptive research aiming to measure the relationship between manager-driven organizational communication climate and organizational silence in universities in Turkey. In the literature review, no research was found on the relationship between manager-based organizational communication climate and organizational silence. The aim of the study is to contribute to the literature to fill this gap. For this purpose, academic or administrative staff working in universities in Turkey constitute the universe of the study, and research was conducted by selecting 244 people as a sample using the limited sampling formula. Frequency and descriptive analysis to reveal descriptive statistics; Correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between variables, and finally, simple linear regression analysis was used to determine the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. In addition, SPSS software was used for data analysis. According to the study, it is seen that there is a significant relationship at the level of .000 between the independent variable in the model, the manager-driven organizational communication climate, and the dependent variable organizational silence. The R2 value of the model was determined as 0.248. In this context, the independent variable in the model, the manager-driven organizational communication climate, can explain 24.8% of the organizational silence, which is the dependent variable. In this direction, it has been determined that the perception of organizational communication climate from the manager contributes to the model by establishing a negative and significant relationship with the organizational silence variable.

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