Relationship between organisational silence and employee demographic characteristics: the case of Lithuanian teachers

Jesevičiūtė-Ufartienė Laima (), Brusokaitė Greta and Widelska Urszula
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Jesevičiūtė-Ufartienė Laima: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Brusokaitė Greta: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Widelska Urszula: Lomza State University of Applied Sciences, Poland

Engineering Management in Production and Services, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 18-27

Abstract: Organisational development requires creative and open employees, who must feel confident to use their inventiveness and share ideas. However, some entities encounter organisational silence. The lack of research into this phenomenon in Lithuanian educational institutions encouraged the authors of the article to investigate how demographic characteristics of teachers relate to types of organisational silence. The authors used two nonparametric tests for analyses, i.e. Mann–Whitney U to study gender and Kruskal–Wallis H to investigate age and marital status. The quantitative research targeted teachers of 104 Lithuanian secondary schools. The research findings contribute to filling the knowledge gap in the topic of organisational silence in Lithuania. The enclosed demographic characteristics can help rectify the current situation in educational institutions.

Keywords: organisational silence; organisational voice; organisational culture; demographic characteristics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/emj-2020-0016

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