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Title A GENDER BASED COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FACTORS LEADING TO ORGANIZATIONAL SILENCE AT HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL

Author(s) Fareha Safdar

Abstract Organizational Silence in the workplace occurs in situations in which employees opt to keep silent. Teachers decided not to express their ideas, opinions, problems within the organization. Teachers choose to remain quite because of fear of isolation, lack of trust, fear of damaging and keeping himself away to avoid any negative consequences. The aim of the current study was to compare the factors leading to Organizational Silence at Higher Education Level among male and female teachers of public universities of Islamabad. Researcher used the quantitative research approach in this study. The population of the study was consisted of 1160 teachers among them 630 were male teachers and 530 were female teachers. Stratified proportionate sampling was used to draw sample from two strata. The sample was consisted of 291 teachers of public university of Islamabad among them 159 (25%) were male teachers and 132 (25%) were female teachers. The return response rate of the current study was 235 among them 108 were male teachers and 127 were female teachers. An adapted questionnaire of Dasci & Cemalouglu (2016) was used by the researcher as a tool to collect the data from participants. Moreover, for the current study, researcher used both descriptive and inferential statistics. Mean and independent t-test was calculated to analyze the data. The analysis of data demonstrates that teachers display more colleagues related factor with 3.50 mean value among five dimensions of organizational silence (Individual characteristics 3.36, Administrative factor 3.21, Organizational culture 3.33 and Pressure Groups 3.15) at university level. Furthermore, results of independent t-test show that there is a significant difference in Organizational Silence of male and female teachers of public universities of Islamabad. Results of independent t-test also indicate that female teachers display more Organizational silence at university level as compare to male teachers.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department Education

Language English

Publication Date 2022-07-25

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