The behavior of staying silent is understood positively when mentioned with the phrase "silence is from professions".
There are many reasons why people remain silent. Silence can be from character and temperament as well as an indicator of resting and thinking actions. However, the meaning of silence in the title is different. The silence we will talk about is that a person does not consciously express his opinion and opinion on a subject and does not speak at the right place and time. In other words, it is the behavior of keeping silent on purpose.
The reasons for the silence of people who prefer to remain silent are examined under organizational, managerial and individual headings. The characteristics of successful companies and companies that can sustain their long-term success are that they manage polyphony well and encourage diversity. It is to continue on their way with leaders who have this vision. In a rapidly changing world, polyphony / polyphony is indispensable to keep up with this change and to manage change.
It will not be possible for an organization to be successful and to continue its success, which is full of employees who prefer to remain silent in their institutions, consciously choose not to share their knowledge and experience with their own institution, who do not want to say ideas and thoughts that will take the institution forward, and who do not share a deficiency they see. The proliferation of people who prefer to remain silent will create organizational silence. Within the institutions with high organizational silence, said-code, lack of motivation, organizational hatred, thought of leaving the job, etc. will increase. Because the person who does not speak his thoughts and ideas properly will express his thoughts and ideas elsewhere and pull his institution-manager behind him. By poisoning other employees, it will affect the spread of silence.
Loss of confidence is the biggest factor in silence. In an institution, if the employee's trust in his supervisor, top manager or colleagues is weak, it will be the case that he will not share his ideas and thoughts and will not be able to express his criticism clearly.
Justice is the middle pillar of trust. The biggest factor that will lose the employee's trust will be in the perception of justice. Fair management, fair wages, fair communication, fair decision making mechanisms, fair process management, fair social rights, etc. will affect the perception of justice in the company. Companies and institutions have to stick to the concept of justice if they want to gain the trust of employees.
The reasons why employees prefer to remain silent;
The problem is worrying about looking like someone
Losing respect and trust
Concerned about damage to the relationship with their manager or colleagues
Anxiety that he might be fired
Anxiety of not being able to be promoted in conflict with their manager
Perception of whether it will be supported by the team or not
The belief that his speech won't do any good
The employee who chooses to remain silent for these and similar reasons becomes indifferent over time. Meet with such a group as you want, create groups called brainstorming, it will be difficult for you to get a result and progress. First, you will need to dissolve the reasons for silence.
The conscious silence of the employees will have some negative repercussions on both themselves and their companies. First of all, the person will contradict himself because he cannot or cannot say what he knows. This situation will disturb him inside. His commitment and belonging to the workplace will weaken. His self-esteem and self-confidence will also decrease. The person who is uncomfortable with this situation will have the thought of leaving the job. As a result, his motivation will decrease and his productivity will decrease. Companies will be deprived of ideas and thoughts that will carry them forward and make them successful. They will not be able to receive the feedback they want from the subordinates and the incoming information will be transmitted filtered. The top management, who cannot provide the correct information, will have made their decisions wrong. Important agendas will be hidden and problems that are easy to solve will grow and become unsolvable over time.
Employees who remain silent and do not share their ideas and thoughts will hurt both themselves and their companies. One study found no decrease in the beliefs of employees who preferred to remain silent in their own success. However, the employee, who enters the atmosphere of indifference over time, will be affected by this environment of silence. According to the phrase "the silence before the storm", silence can also be a harbinger of great destruction. Therefore, it is up to the managers-leaders to encourage polyphony in their institutions and manage this situation well, to investigate the reasons for the environment of silence and to try to eliminate the reasons and to create an atmosphere of trust.
Different voices can be transformed into harmony by the skill of a good master. There is no harmony with a single voice. Ideas collide, creating new and better ideas. Our hope is to create environments and companies and societies that are managed in harmony by creating environments that will destroy the perception of "What will change even if I speak?" Opening the roads that block the conversation ...
