The impact of teachers’ organizational silence on job performance: a serial mediation effect of psychological empowerment and organizational affective commitment

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to discuss the influence of teachers’ organizational silence on job performance and the serial mediation effect of psychological empowerment – organizational commitment. This research surveyed 564 primary and secondary school teachers in China through questionnaires. The quantitative analysis shows that teachers’ organizational silence significantly negatively correlates with job performance, indifferent silence negatively predicts job performance, and acquiescent silence positively predicts contextual performance. Psychological empowerment and organizational affective commitment respectively have a mediation effect, and the chain mechanism of teachers’ psychological empowerment – organizational affective commitment has a full mediation effect on the relationship between teachers’ organizational silence and job performance.

KEYWORDS:

• School teachers
• organizational silence
• psychological empowerment
• organizational commitment
• job performance

Acknowledgments

We thank Xiao-Yi Wu and Yu-Shi You from Beijing Normal University for participating in this research. Furthermore, we thank American Journal Experts (AJE). This paper was edited for proper English language, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and overall style by one or more of the highly qualified native English speaking editors at AJE.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Beijing Education Science “13th Five-Year Plan” Major Project [AAFA16004].

Notes on contributors

Ji-Hai Yao

Ji-Hai Yao received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, China. Now he is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University in China. His current research interests are teacher professional development, educational and administrational psychology and educational human resource management. He has published numerous journals paper on education and phycology.