Identifying Silence Climate in Organizations in the Framework of Contemporary Management Approaches

Dynamic competition conditions in present day bring about the consequence for businesses to face varied
problems with each passing day. At this point, current management approaches include studies that would
shed light on the new problems of businesses. Organizational Silence, a concept that has recently been
being voiced in business world, has come up in such context. Organizational silence could be expressed as
the employee behavior of keeping silent about certain negativities due to various reasons in an
organization. Since knowledge sharing in modern organizations is of capital importance in terms of
responding hastily to the changes in a competitive environment, spread of this behavior of employees to
organization culture and climate presents a threat of indifference. In this study, the concept of
Organizational Silence is defined and the effects of conceived silence climate on management of
organizations are discussed.