An Examination for Studies Related to Silence on Health Personnel

The aim of this study is to examine the studies carried out in Turkey and in the field of health related to organizational silence and employee silence; to reveal the relationships and differences between organizational silence and employee silence, and to be a guidance for further studies. Electronic databases of Y？K Thesis Search Center, Ulakbim, Google Academic, Science Direct, Scopus, and EBSCOhost were scanned in order to reach to studies related to organizational silence and employee silence. Studies were eliminated by considering elimination criteria for this review and 27 studies were included in this study. Descriptive study findings shows that, 85.1 % of the studies were related to organizational silence, 14.8 % of them are related to employee silence and 43.4 % of organizational silence studies are carried on nurses, whereas this is half of the studies for employee silence