Author(s): Melis ÖRENLİLİ, Hülya Gündüz ÇEKMECELİOĞLU
In this study, by the definition of employees' organizational silence behaviours, the importance of these behaviours and the reasons are scrutinised, and the negative impacts of this organizational silence on counter-productive work behaviours are being researched. In this context, the impacts of employees' acquiescent, defensive and protective behaviours of silence attitudes on counterproductive work behaviours are examined. For this research, a survey has been performed with 149 employees both in business of public and private enterprises in province of Bursa. According to analysis results of the survey; it is found that there are positive and significant relations between the organizational silence behaviours and counter-productive work behaviours. On the other hand, by the analysis of sub-dimension of these concepts, it is determined that acquiescent, defensive and protective silence of employees have important effects on counter-productive work behaviours
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