The Impact of Employees' Perceptions of Organizational Righteousness on Organizational Silence with a Moderating Role in Understanding Leadership Behavior in Isfahan Azad University

The purpose of current research was determining the effect of employee perceptions for Isfahan Azad University of organizational Silence through leadership behavior on organizational silence based on correlation type descriptive approach. Population of the research was consisted of all the 422 employees of Isfahan Azad University which 154 participant employees was chosen based on Tabachnick and fidell Formula by an available random sampling method. The information gathering tools were three questionnaire consist of the perception of organizational integrity, Kameron et.al (2004), the leadership behavior of Goba (2013) and the organizational silence of Valkola and Budras (2005). Formal validity of each questionnaire was verified by the supervisor and some of responders. Also reliability of questionnaires was calculated by the coefficient alpha of Cronbach to be 0.93 for the perception of organizational integrity, 0.98 for the leadership behavior and 0.92 for the organizational silence questionnaire. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient, stepwise regression, and structural equation modeling) were used. Results showed that the dimensions of the perception of integrity included integration with the T-value of 8.12 / 5, forgiveness with a t-value of 3.590, and sympathy with the t-value of 391.3 at 95% confidence level, are dependent to the predictive power of the variable.