Context: Employee creativity and the use of their opinions are the most important factors influencing the development of organizations and act as the antidote to laziness and weakness in the organization. Meanwhile, various factors affect employees' creativity, includin
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Context: Employee creativity and the use of their opinions are the most important factors influencing the development of organizations and act as the antidote to laziness and weakness in the organization. Meanwhile, various factors affect employees' creativity, including workplace ostracism and organizational silence. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of organizational silence in the relationship between workplace ostracism and employees' creativity at Lorestan University. Research method: The present descriptive-exploratory research is applied in terms of purpose and is based on the deductive research and positivism paradigm in term of philosophy. The statistical population of the study was 440 employees of Lorestan University. Based on Morgan's table, a sample of 205 people was selected by stratified random sampling. In order to measure the variables of the research, the (Ferris et al’s, 2008) workplace ostracism Questionnaire, (Torrance’s, 2001), creativity Questionnaire and the (Bouradas and Maria’s, 2019) organizational silence Questionnaire were used and Their reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha. For data analysis, structural equations modeling and PLS software have been used. Findings: Research findings show that workplace ostracism has a positive relationship with organizational silence and a negative relationship with employee's creativity. Conclusion: The overall results of the study show that workplace ostracism has a negative relationship with employee's creativity both directly and through organizational silence.
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