STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT (CASE STUDY: MASHHAD RAILWAY GENERAL DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES)

The present research aims to study the relationship between the organizational silence and organizational commitment among Mashhad Railway employees. In terms of objective, the research is applied; in terms of methodology, it is descriptive and correlational; and in terms of method of data collection, it is a field research. The statistical population in this research is all Mashhad Railway employees in 2015, including 600 employees at the time of conducting the research. For sample selection, simple random sampling method is used which considering Cochran's statistical formula in the following relation, the minimum number of sample under study is 180 people. For data collection, Fayload's Organizational Silence and Meyer and Allen's Organizational Commitment Standard Questionnaires (1991) were used. For data analysis, for research hypotheses testing and for determining the effect of each of the components of organizational silence on organizational commitment, SPSS statistical software, Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression coefficient were used, respectively. Research findings show that there is a significant inverse relationship between the organizational silence and organizational commitment among Mashhad Railway employees. In addition, results show that there is a significant inverse relationship between submissive silence, defensive silence and altruistic silence with organizational commitment of Mashhad Railway employees.