The test of Conceptual Model of the causal relationship between organizational silence and productivity with mediation of Job security among physical education professors of Northwest Azad Universityof the country emphasizing the views of adjunct and permanent professors

Subject Areas : Human resources management)

Akbar Abdolhoseinzadeh ¹ , Alimohammd Amirtash ² , Alimohammad Safania ³ , Abbas Khodayari ⁴

1 - Ph.D. candidate in Sport Management, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Sports Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2020-04-17 Accepted : 2020-07-29 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Organizational silence, job security, organizational productivity,

Abstract :

The main purpose of this research was to test the conceptual model of causal relationship between organizational silence and productivity with the mediation of job security among Iranian physical education professors of northwest Azad universities with a focus on full-time and adjunct professors ‘views. The research method is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study consisted of of the physical education professors at northwestern Azad universities. The sample size consisted of 320 professors based on Morgan table recruited through relative stratified random sampling. In the present study, Dashchi and Kamal Oglu’s questionnaire of organizational silence, the Niece et al.’s Job Security Questionnaire and Achiev’s questionnaire of productivity were used and Cronbach's alpha was 0.88, 0.86 and 0.91, respectively. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data by using PLS-SMART software.The results of the study showed that there was a negative significant relationship between organizational silence with job security.In other words, there was a negative significant relationship between organizational silence and productivity of physical education professors of Northwest Azad universities considering the mediating role of job security.Moreover, the results revealed that the views of adjunct and full-time professors of northwestern Azad universities regarding the impact of organizational silence on productivity were significantly different.

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