Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ege Akademik Bakış, cilt.19, sa.2, ss.205-220, 2019 (Hakemli Dergi)
The aim of this study was to present how employees’voice and silence behaviour differ according todemographic characteristics. Two different samplewas used as Iranian and Turkish. 160 surveys weredistributed for both samples. 123 survey wereusable for Iranian sample and 149 surveys wereusable for Turkish sample in various sectors. Thedata were collected using by a questionnaire formand analysed with the statistical program SPSS. Thescale for employee voice and silence was adaptedfrom Dyne et al. (2003), including 30 items and sixfactors. Explanatory factor analysis was used todetermine the scale factor structure. Then alphacoefficients were determined for scale reliability.In order to determine the significant difference ofemployee voice and silence behaviour according todemographic characteristics, a t-test and Anova testwere employed. Significant differences were foundfor employee voice and silence across demographiccharacteristics on both Iranian and Turkish sample.The similarities and differences between theemployees were compared in terms of these twocountries.