Gender Influence on the Organizational Silence in the School Sector in Amman, Jordan.
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https://doi.org/10.61841/6c0g3b12Keywords:
Human Factors, organisational Silence, Human Resources, School Sectors, Silence FactorsAbstract
This research is based on the the school sector in the Jordanian Capital Amman and
aims to measure the difference in the silence level between teachers according to
gender and to determine which silence's factors have an impact on the decision-making
process. A questionnaire was distributed to collect the information needed from a study
sample of 1643 male and female teachers that were randomly selected. The required
tests were carried out to ensure the reliability of the questionnaire. Furthermore, the
correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses
of the study. According to some of the results there was a moderate difference in the
silence level between genders, and there was an inverse relationship between the
factors of silence and participation in decision-making. Moreover, the results showed
that the organizational silence level is higher in female teachers than in male ones.
Furthermore, the results showed that female teachers are higher in each silence factor
except for psychological withdrawal
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