TURHAN, Rasim Ege Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İşletme Bölümü, Turkey , ÜNNÜ, Nazlı Ayşe Ayyıldız Ege Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İşletme Bölümü, Turkey , İLİC, Derya Kelgökmen Ege Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İşletme Bölümü, Turkey , ÇAPRAZ, Burak Ege Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İşletme Bölümü, Turkey , KESKEN, Jülide Ege Üniversitesi - İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - İşletme Bölümü, Turkey

THE EFFECT OF CULTURE ON SILENCE BEHAVIORS OF EMPLOYEES: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS ON PROVERBS

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Although “human being” is a “value” for organizations, mostly it has been seen as a production factor, an asset or with a common use as a resource. However, there has been a change in the perception of human being due to the changes in organizational and managerial aspects. The employees in work life are not mentioned as “resources” who occupy a physical place but perceived as a “value” who have emotions, opinions and thoughts. Organizations also have become aware of the value of human beings and begin to give importance to the employees’ knowledge, thoughts, opinions and recommendations. Although, sharing of the knowledge, opinion, thought and recommendations of employees for organizations is important, sometimes employees fall into silence behavior. There are many different reasons for such a behavior of employees. The aim of this work is to examine the effects of culture on silence behavior and by taking the advantage of the proverbs the relationship of silence behavior with different aspects is going to be examined. In this study, the content analysis was conducted as a qualitative research method and document examination method was used as data collection method. The proverbs related with voice and silence behaviors, used as primary data were analyzed by four researchers in the basis of three different resources. As a result of this study, 24 different dimensions and 44 proverbs, which are related to silence behavior were found.

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Silence , Voice , Culture , Proverbs , Content Analysis.

Ege Strategic Research Journal

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