Abstract:

Health managers are required to perform the functions of planning, organizing, executing, coordinating and controlling health services management. In performing these functions, it is expected that they will lead the organization by ensuring a complete and accurate flow of information, a healthy communication environment, participation of employees in decisions, motivation. The aim of the study is to determine the level of organizational silence of managers working in a public hospital and to determine whether they differ according to some demographic variables. The average organizational silence score of the participants was 2.22±0.74, the average acceptance and passive organizational silence scores were 2.26±0.84, the average opportunistic organizational silence scores were 1.77±0.75, and the organizational silence scores for the benefit of the organization were 2.74±1.15. Looking at the lower-dimensional score averages of organizational silence, it is seen that opportunistic organizational silence is the lowest but the average score of organizational silence for the benefit of the organization is the highest. However, it has been observed that they prefer silence when it comes to organizational interests.

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