Interdisciplinary Studies on Strategic Knowledge

Interdisciplinary Studies on Strategic Knowledge

Effective factors in Organizational Silence of IRIMOD’ s Staff by Means of Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM): Recognition and Prioritization

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Hussein Dehqani Poudeh 1
Amin Pashaie Halasou 2
1 Associate Professor at Malik Ashtar University of Industry
2 Correspondent author, Ph.D. Candidate for Industrial Management- Islamic Azad University
Abstract
As defined by researchers, organizational silence is unwillingness of staffers to truthful expression in spite of inclination to alter affairs for the fear of the employees due to negative outcomes and their understanding of complex viewpoints of managers. Meanwhile, this study aims at recognition and prioritization of the effective factors in organizational silence in the staff of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ministry of Defense (IRIMOD) by Means of ISM. Doing so, it is conducted by description-survey and selects the population in an objective manner. To gather data, it exploits a researcher-drawn questionnaire the reliability of which hits 0/995 by SPSS, and as the data were normal, they were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis with LISREL Software. The major outcomes of the study are as follows: The factors of management, culture, organization, group, personality, job security, communication opportunities, motivation, traditional conflicts, gender, etc. are effective in organizational silence based on ISM in such a way that the cultural ones are the most fundamental
Keywords
Silence
organizational silence
ISM
Interdisciplinary Studies on Strategic Knowledge
Volume 1, Issue 2
Spring 2018
Pages 7-44