The Research on the Voice and Silence Behaviours of Iranian and Turkish Employees According to Their Demographic Characteristics

The aim of this study was to present how employees’ voice and silence behaviour differ according to demographic characteristics. Two different sample was used as Iranian and Turkish. 160 surveys were distributed for both samples. 123 survey were usable for Iranian sample and 149 surveys were usable for Turkish sample in various sectors. The data were collected using by a questionnaire form and analysed with the statistical program SPSS. The scale for employee voice and silence was adapted from Dyne et al. (2003), including 30 items and six factors. Explanatory factor analysis was used to determine the scale factor structure. Then alpha coefficients were determined for scale reliability. In order to determine the significant difference of employee voice and silence behaviour according to demographic characteristics, a t-test and Anova test were employed. Significant differences were found for employee voice and silence across demographic characteristics on both Iranian and Turkish sample. The similarities and differences between the employees were compared in terms of these two countries.