The relationhip between organizational silence and burnout syndrome

Organizational silence is that employees avoid speaking about organizational issues because of various problems, and burnout is defined that employees experience mental, emotional and physical tired related to their jobs. At the present time, both those are very important among the factors that can influenced the individuals and organizations considerably. When viewed from this aspect, a good number of researchers did scientific studies on these concepts. However, these researches considered organizational silence and burnout singly, or evaluated these concepts in terms of the other concepts that it can be thought that they are correlated with them. Whereas, there are very few researches that examined the possible relationship between these concepts. Thus, it is aimed to examine the relationships between the concepts of organizational silence and burnout that it is thought that they are the most important issues which influenced the work life. With this aim, the survey study was conducted on total 132 academicians who work at Atatürk University. At this study, the hypothesis is suggested about the significant relationship between organizational silence and burnout, and Correlation and Stepwise Regression Analyses are used in order to test this hypothesis. The findings show that there is a significant relationship between organizational silence and burnout as it is expected, at the same time, it is revealed that organizational silence have a positive effect on burnout