The effect of organizational climate on organizational silence, case study Azad University

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of organizational climate on organizational silence in Lamerd Islamic Azad University. This research is applied in terms of target type and in terms of data collection method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this research consisted of 84 professors of Islamic Azad University of Lamerd in the academic year 1396/1395. A census method was used to select the sample and each 84 faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Lamard were selected. The instrument for collecting data in this study was the organizational climate questionnaire based on Halpin and Kraft (1963) and Organizational Silence Questionnaire (KOLA and BORDAS, 2005). The content validity and appearance of the questionnaires were confirmed by the experts and their reliability, which was the result of a two week trial of 30, was estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which was 0.78 for the organizational climate questionnaire and The organizational silence questionnaire was 0.83. To analyze the data, regression analysis was used at a significant level of 0.05. The results show that by upgrading one unit of organizational climate, 0.990 unit of standard deviation of organizational silence will increase, resulting in a positive relationship. Also, the results showed that the dimensions of organizational climate of the organizational climate of command, limitation, pretending to work, unwillingness and distancing have a significant effect on organizational silence in Lamard Islamic Azad University.