Determination of Reasons for Organizational Silence of Health Professionals: An Example of Private Hospital Cover Image

Sağlık Personelinin Örgütsel Sessizlik Nedenlerinin Belirlenmesi: Özel Hastane Örneği
Determination of Reasons for Organizational Silence of Health Professionals: An Example of Private Hospital

Author(s): Gözde Yeşilaydın, Gamze Bayın, Gökhan Yılmaz
Subject(s): Management and complex organizations, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Organizational Silence;Health Professionals;Health Care Management;

Summary/Abstract: Silence behavior across the problems related to the organization of health workforce, which has an important place in health care delivery affects the organization’s activities. It’s important to know how employees will behave an attitude about organizational issues and problems, analyze the behaviors and be able to identify the reasons of the silence behavior for health institutions. The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons of organizational silence for health professionals working at a private hospital in Trabzon, to identify relationship among dimensions of silence and to demonstrate the differentiation with features of health professions and reasons of silence. The survey sample is 180 health professions. As a result, it is found that health professionals show most silent behavior because of “managerial and organizational reasons” and at least silent behavior because of “lack of experience”. Age, gender and occupational groups variables constitute a significant difference on silence average.

  • Issue Year: 8/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 629-645
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Turkish