Examining the Relationship between Organizational Commitment and Organizational Silence of Teachers

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational silence of teachers. While there is a lot of work regarding the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational silence, it has been observed that there are few studies on teachers. At this point, the study was considered significant and it was thought that it should be performed. In order to accomplish the purpose of the study, a survey was conducted to the teachers. According to the results of reliability analysis of organizational commitment scale which was used in the research, while Cronbach's alpha coefficients is 0.745, Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the organizational silence questionnaire is 0.89.The population of the research consisted of teachers who were affiliated with the Ministry of National Education and Culture and who were working in the elementary schools in Northern Cyprus, in the 2018-2019 academic year. The sample consisted of teachers from 28 different schools in the Guzelyurt, Kyrenia, and Nicosia regions. In this quantitative study, a total of 387 teachers, who were enrolled as participants, took organizational commitment and organizational silence scales. As a result of the analyses, it has been found that there is a significant negative relationship between the two.