Abstract:

Job engagement, defined as the dedication of employees to their work with the highest performance, is a very important concept for organizations. Job engagement consists of three dimensions: energy, dedication, and concentration. Organizational silence, on the other hand, can be defined as employees knowingly and willingly not expressing their opinions and thoughts in the face of an incident in the organization. As the job engagement of employees increases organizational silence will decrease in return individuals express their ideas freely. Organizational silence consists of three dimensions as acquiescent, defensive, and protective silence. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of work engagement on organizational silence. For this purpose, data were collected on a voluntary basis from civil servants working in a municipality operating in Ankara. The regression analysis showed that work engagement has a positive effect on organizational silence; energy and concentration dimensions of work engagement had no significant effect on acquiescent, defensive, and protective silence; dedication, a dimension of work engagement, has a significant effect on acquiescent and defensive silence but not on protective silence.

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