The Relational Identification and its relation to Organizational Silence ofEmployees of state departments
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Relational Identification- Organizational SilenceAbstract
The aim of the current research is to identify relational identification and organizational silence, as well as the correlation between identification and organizational silence among state employees. The research sample consisted of (240) male and female employees from the Babylon Education Directorate and the Presidency of the University of Babylon, were chosen randomly. To achieve the goals of the research, the researcher used the correlational descriptive approach and adopted two scales of Hakan & Jamel (2019) to measure relational identification, and Abd-Erhaman et al. (2022) to measure organizational silence. The findings were concluded that there is relational identification and organizational silence, and there is a positive correlation between relational identification and organizational silence. In light of the findings, the researcher developed a number of recommendations and suggestions.
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