Exploring the Levels and Reasons of Organizational Silence of Secondary School Teachers of Punjab Pakistan

Abstract

This research study aimed to investigate the impact of organizational silence on the performance of secondary school teachers. It sought to examine how the phenomenon of organizational silence, wherein teachers consciously withhold their opinions, ideas, or concerns, influences their professional performance. The main objective of the study was to identify the level of organizational silence among secondary school teachers, explore the causes of organizational silence among secondary school teachers. The study was delimited to the secondary schools in Punjab province. Head-teachers, secondary school teachers and secondary school students were the unit of analysis and hence forth constituted the population of study. Data were collected through cross sectional survey and interviews. Multistage sampling technique was used to get the required number of respondents as sample. Data collected from randomly selected 446 secondary school teachers, analyzed by running SPSS. Descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data, moreover inferential statistics also used such as t-test. The results indicated that among secondary school teachers in Punjab, there was evidence of a moderate level of organizational silence. However, the study did not uncover any significant impact of organizational silence on the performance of secondary school teachers. The p-value did not support the null hypothesis, which stated that there was no statistically significant influence of organizational silence on the performance of secondary school teachers.