Identification of Organizational Silence Factors in the Faculty Members of Universities of Iran: A Qualitative Study

Nowadays, the authorities of educational and research organizations increasingly have focused on the value of human resources, because of ever-increasing environmental challenges and competition climate among counterparts. Nevertheless, the overwhelming phenomenon of organizational silence, which is equivalent to intended self-censorship of staff, play a role as a barrier to use these sources so it have been considered by researchers. But despite the importance of this phenomenon in organizations, comprehensive studies in this regard, especially the study of factors affecting the silence in cultural and educational organizations, have not been carried out in Iran. The aim of this study was identifying the factors of organizational silence in the society of academic members according to ideas of management experts in the universities of Iran by interviewing tools through targeted sampling. The codes were extracted from the interviews and were analyzed by the MAXQUDA software. Results showed that organizational and intra-organizational, individual, and administrative factors are the main factors of organizational silence in faculty members of the universities and earlier is the most frequent one. This research has applied goals and their findings will help us to decrease silence and its destructive effects and increase the optimal use of human resources in organizations. Also, they will assist to solve the basic problems of society, which is the main mission of the university, to be done the best.