Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the leadership behavior perceptions of the functional managers of healthcare professionals and to ascertain the effect of leadership behaviors on the organizational silence of employees.

Material and Method: The study consists of 381 healthcare payroll employees working in two education and research hospitals in Istanbul. As a data collection tool, a 72-question form was used to question the leadership behavior scale, the organizational silence scale, and the sociodemographic characteristics of the participants.

Results: The examination of the results of the analysis reveals that most of the participants are women (60.4%).

The evaluation of the leadership behaviors in terms of their sub-dimensions exhibits the facts that the task-oriented leadership sub-dimension average is 3.51±0.37, the relationship-oriented leadership sub-dimension average is 3.27±0.37 and the change-oriented leadership sub-dimension is 3.30±0.33. On the other hand, the evaluation in terms of organizational silence sub-dimensions reveals that the mean fear subscale dimension is 2.70±0.48, the mean size of managerial and organizational causes is 2.73±0.54, while the lack of experience is 2.36±0.31 and the mean total size of organizational silence is 2.67±0.37. Differences were detected between leadership behaviors, organizational silence, and sociodemographic variables.

Conclusion: The effect of leadership behaviors on organizational silence was determined by regression analysis and it was seen that leadership behavior affected organizational silence (R2=0,24).

Organizational silence Leadership Health management