Abstract:

This study examines the relationships between psychological capital, organizational silence and employment alienation and determines whether organizational silence has a mediation role in the relationship between other variables. Data from a sample of 202 persons consisting of academic and administrative staff of a state university in Turkey has been collected. The data analysis is based on the IBM SPSS 25.0 program. It has been found that from the lower dimensions of psychological capital, optimism and hope have reduced the outsourcing to employment to a statistically significant level. The acceptable and defensive dimensions of organizational silence have been found to have a statistically meaningful positive impact on foreigning on employment. When all the variables are considered as a whole, the negative effects of psychological capital on organizational silence and outsourcing to work are statistically meaningful. In addition, the influence of psychological capital on employment is determined that there is a partial mediation effect of organizational silence.

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