Özet:

The determination and determination of organizations to achieve their goals, which are the reason for their existence, also creates a sustainable competitive advantage. Organizations need employees who can respond to threats from the environment they serve, have high self-confidence, and who do not hesitate to convey their knowledge and experience to other employees in order to achieve their establishment goals and to create a sustainable efficiency. However, today it is claimed that there is a noticeable increase in the number of employees who deliberately avoid their colleagues from their knowledge and experience. Consciously, the knowledge and experience of the employees about the situation, problem or issues that need to be decided within the organization; they may not share them for reasons such as protection, not being seen as a problematic person, believing that others will produce more correct ideas, and that the ideas they put forward will not create a change. This situation has entered the literature as the concept of organizational silence. Although organizations know the importance of teamwork to achieve their goals, they sometimes cause their employees to adopt the behavior of silence, sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously. In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of awareness of middle school principals regarding organizational silence, the subjects and situations in which teachers were silent, the reasons for teachers' silence and the reflections of this silence, and to offer suggestions for eliminating the silence of the employees in the organization. The sample of the study consists of 12 secondary school principals working in state schools in Derince district of Kocaeli province in the academic year 2020/2021. The data were collected with a semi-structured interview form, which was recorded live in the schools where the participants worked. The data collected by sound recording was written and analyzed. Descriptive content analysis was made with the data transferred to the article. In addition, the sentences spoken by the participants were included in order to reflect original opinions and thoughts. As a result of the analysis; It was observed that middle school principals knew the concept of organizational silence. Secondary school principals' reasons for the emergence of organizational silence, what are its effects on the organization, and solutions to prevent organizational silence have been determined. It is thought that organizational silence, whose importance has been understood in the domestic literature in recent years, will contribute to the production of effective solutions in a more detailed way on the basis of human factor.

 

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