What makes academic librarians organizationally silent?

• Autores: Heidar Mokhtari
• Localización: IFLA journal, ISSN 0340-0352, Vol. 42, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 220-226
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Academiclibrarians’organizationalsilencehasabadeffectontheserviceprovisioninacademiclibraries.Thisstudy aimedtoinvestigatethestatusoforganizationalsilenceamongacademiclibrariansandthefactorsthatinfluenceitas perceived by them. Using the convenience sampling method, 118 academic librarians in the academic libraries of northern Iran wereselected. They completeda questionnairecalled‘‘Academic Librarians’ Organizational Silence Scale’’. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistic methods. Positively affecting academic librarians’ organizational silence behavior, library managements’ attitude to silence was the strongest predictor of the librarians’ organizational silence. Negatively affecting their organizational silence behavior, the existence of communication opportunities in the library was another predictor. The consideration of organizational silence and weakening its influence among academic librarians is the motivator for their appropriate service provision. This exploratory research is the first step in the deep study of this construct in librariesandamonglibrarians.ThisstudyhassomeimplicationsfortheoryandpracticeintheLibrarySciencefield. In the former, it extends evidence in the literature aimed at library human resource management. In the latter, it informs library managementof factors atwork in librarians’ organizationalsilence. Despite its limitationsas to the studysampleandgeographicallylimitedscopeoflibrariesstudied,thisexploratorystudycanmotivateresearchers to consider librarians’ organizational silence in different types of library.