Structural analysis the effect of organizational silence & voice on job engagement and organizational health of female nurses

Nowadays, in addition to professional and capable employees, hospitals need healthy, enthusiastic and passionate nurses. Organizational health and Job engagement in employees has been considered by many researchers in behavioral sciences and industrial and organizational psychologists for many years, and has been attempting to identify its predisposing factors. Among the factors that threaten nurses' job engagement and organizational health are increasing the silence and reducing the organizational voice of nurses, which first affects their job engagement and then leads to a decrease in organizational health. In this regard, the present study investigates the effect of organizational silence and voice on job engagement of women nurses and their organizational health. This study was conducted on a non-random sample available of 268 nurses in Ahvaz hospitals. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of data collection. Data were collected by standard questionnaires with validity and reliability and analyzed using and structural equation modeling with Smart PLS software. The results of data analysis showed that organizational silence and voice of nurses with path coefficients of -0.44, 0.48 and -0.39, 0.53 and t-statistic more than 1.96, had significant effect on their job engagement & organizational health, respectively. The findings showed that the organizational silence of nurses leads to a decrease in job engagement and, consequently, a decrease in their organizational health, and, organizational voice will increase the job engagement of women nurses and thus improve their organizational health.