Abstract:

Today’s modern organizations tend to benefit from creative capacity of their employees thus they investigate the factors that increase or decrease individual creative performance. In this study, the relationships between organizational silence, organizational identification and perceived individual creativity performance were analyzed and the mediator role of organizational identification on the relationship between organizational silence and individual creativity was investigated. For these purposes, the research was conducted on 24 manufacturing and sales companies operating in Marmara Region and the data gathered through questionnaires was based upon the responses of 174 employees. These data were analyzed via reliability analysis, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis. According to the results, prosocial silence, one of the dimensions of organizational silence, has a positive effect on individual creativity. Likewise prosocial silence and defensive silence, other dimensions of organizational silence, positively affects organizational identification. Finally, the last experimental result shows that organizational identification has a mediating role on the relationship between organizational silence and individual creativity

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