The Organizational Silence and its relation to The Work Alienation of Employees of state departments
Keywords:
organizational silence, work alienation, employees of state departmentsAbstract
The two researchers sought to identify the correlation between organizational silence and work alienation of Employees of state departments through a set of objectives represented by identifying:
- The organizational silence among the employees of the state departments.
- The significance of the differences in organizational silence among the employees of state departments according to the variables of gender (males, females), and marital status(married and unmarried).
- work alienation among the employees of state departments.
- Significance of differences in work alienation among state employees, according to gender (males, females), and marital status(married, unmarried).
- Correlational relationship between organizational silence and work alienation among the employees of state departments.
To achieve the aims of the research, the two researchers built the organizational silence scale which in its final form consisted of (24) items, and built the scale of work alienation, which in its final form consisted of (25) items, and after verifying their validity and reliability and analyzing their items statistically on the research sample of (427) male and female employees of state departments in the city center of Al-Diwaniyah, and the research reached the following results.
-The employees are characterized by a high degree of organizational silence.
-There is no statistically significant difference among employees in organizational silence according to the variable of gender and social status, with a statistically significant difference in the interaction of gender and social status.
-The employees are characterized by a low degree of functional alienation.
-There is no statistically significant difference for employees in job alienation according to the gender variable, with a statistically significant difference according to the marital status variable in favor of the unmarried, as well as the impact of the interaction of the gender and social status variables on job alienation.
-There is a positive correlation between organizational silence and job alienation among department employees.
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