Aflatoon Amiri, Mahdi Zare kahnali, Ahmad Alamdari, Reza Nejad
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational silence and organizational commitment among employees of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. This research is applied in terms of purpose and is correlational in terms of nature and method. The statistical population of this research is the employees of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2017 and their number is 961 people. To determine the sample size, 276 people were selected as the sample size through the Morgan table. The data gathering tool is a questionnaire which has been proved in a preliminary study of validity and reliability of these questionnaires. In order to analyze the research data, descriptive and inferential statistics (structural equation model) were used using LISREL software version 8.7. Structural equation modeling results on research hypotheses show that there is a significant and negative relationship between organizational maintenance with organizational commitment among employees of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, and organizational silence has a good effect on organizational commitment of employees. People need to have the power to control their environment and make decisions for their tasks, if they do not give them the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings, they lack control over their work environment, and this causes self-doubt and loss of confidence leading to loss of credit of employees about organization. It means that the more scare feeling exist in the organization with atmosphere of silence. So, the commitment of employees of organization will decrease.