Journal of New Advances in Educational Management

Journal of New Advances in Educational Management

Investigating the mediating role of organizational silence in the relationship between organizational health and job attachment of secondary school teachers

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 Master's degree student in Educational Research, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran
2 Assistant Professor of Educational Sciences, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht
Abstract
The purpose of the present research was to investigate the mediating role of organizational silence in the relationship between organizational health and job attachment of secondary school teachers in the 4th district of Shiraz city. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive and correlational in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of this research includes teachers of the second secondary level in the 4th district of Shiraz city. Their number is 303 people. The sample group was selected using available sampling method and according to Morgan's table in the number of 170 people. The measurement tools in this research were three occupational attachment questionnaires by Edward Zukilpatrick (1984), the organizational health questionnaire by Hoy and Feldman (1998) and the Van Dyne organizational silence standard questionnaire, and the validity and reliability of the instrument were confirmed. The collected data were analyzed at two levels of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, and the results showed that organizational health had a direct and significant relationship with job attachment, and organizational silence had an inverse and significant relationship with job attachment, and both variables were effective in predicting it. are Finally, the mediating role of organizational silence in the relationship between organizational health and job attachment was confirmed. Organizational health had a direct and significant relationship with job attachment and was effective in predicting it, and organizational silence had an inverse and significant relationship with job attachment and was effective in predicting it.
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  • Receive Date 21 January 2023
  • Revise Date 08 February 2023
  • Accept Date 21 February 2023
  • Publish Date 21 March 2023