The relationship between organizational silence and organizational culture in Yasouj University of Medical Sciences based on Denison model in 2015

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When creativity is the only stimulus to survive, sustain and improve the organizations, the leading organizations are trying to develop it further. Organizational silence is a phenomenon which stands against the intellectual participation of employees and their creativity and hinders the progress of the organization towards perfection. Organizational culture is one of the important factors that can change the phenomenon of silence. Identification and analysis of organizational culture and the relationship of each of the cultural dimensions with the phenomenon of organizational silence can help managers and decision makers to be able to manage the phenomenon of silence well and remove it from the organization. Methodology: The research methodology is a descriptive and correlational study that has investigated the studied phenomena as cross-sectional. In this study the two phenomena of organizational silence and organizational culture were studied and the relationship between them was measured. The population was the staff of Yasouj University of Medical Sciences that was estimated about 770 people. That according to Cochran formula (Morgan and Krejcie table), a sample of 260 members of staff and managers of this organization were selected. To gather the data, Denison Organizational Culture questionnaire (2006) and organizational silence questionnaire by Vakola & Bouradas (2005) was used. Results: The four dimensions and twelve indicators of organizational culture of Denison model in Yasouj University of Medical Sciences was moderate and between 50 and 60 percent. Also the organizational silence in Yasouj University of Medical Sciences was moderate. Also organizational silence has a significant positive correlation with all indicators and dimensions of organizational culture (p<0.001). Conclusion: The findings suggest that by improving the indicators of organizational culture the phenomenon of organizational silence can be managed and eliminated. Accordingly with the use of culture management tools it can be expected that the phenomenon of organizational silence can be eliminated in the organization.